The Election

My sense looking at a map of the nation, seeing the blue on both coasts, is 'Thank God, the Heartland can still elect the President.' But perhaps it is almost fractal - Washington state shows up as blue on the national map, but at the state level, it is only the Puget Sound metropolitan areas that went Democratic (as is normal and expected every year).

Kerry carried only 14 of the state's 39 counties, but they included populous King, Pierce, Snohomish, Kitsap and Thurston. Bush carried Spokane County and Eastern Washington and much of Western Washington outside of central Puget Sound.

So perhaps it is the non-city dwellers who voted Mr. Bush back in. I wonder how that would hold up nation-wide.