Montana, Blue?

The West is quickly turning Democratic blue my friends; even with McCain as their native son (4.00 / 1)

McCain is even struggling in maroon Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming....

and yes even in his home state of Arizona.

We Democrats have just about locked up Hawaii, Washington state, Oregon, and California....

Colorado, New Mexico, and now Montana look great for us Dems too...

And yes even solidly Republican Alaska is in play for us this year.  

And that's even with a lifelong Westerner on the top of the Republican ticket.

Even the adjacent Great Plains states to the East of the Rockies are leaning more Democratic than ever before, especially North Dakota.

As for West Virginia, Virginia, and Kentucky I am still 50/50 on them right now.  It probably depends on my neck of the woods.  Obama's weakest areas in all three states are ironically traditionally the most Democratic parts of the three states, the coalfields where I live.  That's sad for me to say that but very much true.

If we Democrats could just get my fellow coalfield Democratic voters to stick to their Democratic roots and educate them to not be fooled by the Republicans trying to divide us with negative religious and racist stereotypes I think we have a shot at all three states the Virginias especially.

I'm only 50/50 as to whether we Democrats can do that her in West Virginia here especially among my fellow white evangelicals and Pentecostals.  McCain still leads among them 69-21.  That number to me is very disturbing especially considering the obviously the last non-Christian and hypocritical 7 and 1/2 of the Bush administration.

Judging from what I've observed in my own church it sadly doesn't look good at all for us Democrats concerning the evangelical and Pentecostal vote right now.

The McCain evangelical problem has sadly been greatly exaggerated by the press.  In this case though I think it's more of an anti-Obama vote than a pro-McCain vote, mostly because of Obama's "Muslim-sounding" name, Rev. Wright, and Obama's small town comments.  They sadly resonated very strongly in my church.

Here where I live the non-evangelicals and non-Pentecostals are very open to voting for Obama.  My fellow white evangelicals and Pentecostals sadly still not as much....

even after 7 and 1/2 the hypocritical, Phariseean, non-Christian acts of the Bush administration.

I'm with you.  I will be greatly disappointed if Obama carries Montana, Nevada, and Colorado and not West Virginia.

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by: bluemcdowell @ Fri Jul 04, 2008 at 18:12:32 PM UTC

i meant 7 and 1/2 "years" of the Bush administration; somber weather forecast (4.00 / 1)

I left out the most important word as usual.  Sorry about that.

Have a happy and safe 4th of July weekend everybody.

Sadly it's going to be a trying July 4th weekend on the weather front.  Heavy rain and thunderstorms are predicted every single day not only this entire July 4th weekend but for next week as well.  We've already received too much rain this year already and sadly much more is forecast and happening right now as I type this message in the parts of West Virginia that need it the least:  Northern and Central West Virginia and the eastern mountains.....

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by: bluemcdowell @ Fri Jul 04, 2008 at 18:34:17 PM UTC

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