After 16 years of administrations with Southern accents, Obama has named only one Southern to his Cabinet: New Orleanean Lisa Jackson.

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Michigan just can’t seem to win these days. The Detroit Lions are cruising to an 0-16 season. The Wolverines just finished their worst season in four decades. And oh yea, the Big Three automakers are in total collapse and Sen. Carl Levin (D) just lost the battle for a congressional bailout.
Of course, Detroit’s collapse isn’t [...]

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Which four states were once independent republics?
(Hint: Three are blue; one is red)

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Bill Simmons thinks so:
Think about it. Canada gets the spiritual lift of purchasing one of the 50 states, as well as musicians like Kid Rock, Bob Seger and Eminem, a second NBA and MLB team, two Big Ten schools, another NHL team, its first NFL team and, of course, more territory. Canadians would be flying [...]

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The Oklahoma-Texas Tech game Saturday night was about as close as the Obama-McCain matchup in Oklahoma. If you missed the game, Oklahoma was up 42-7 at half and eventually won by a crushing 65-21 margin. The presidential contest in the Sooner State wasn’t much closer — McCain swept all 77 counties and [...]

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Once again, the New York Times has some of the best electoral map features.  Click here to play with the map and zoom in on states.
Using their map technology, we can see an astonishing blue-ing of the map from 2004 to 2008.  You can also dig back a couple of cycles to see which directions [...]

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Rep. Chris Shays was their last holdout, but he lost his CT-04 seat tonight by nearly 10 points. The GOP is now a phantom party in Northeast.
Two of the people I trust most on politics — Chuck Todd and Dave Wasserman — had an interesting point about this.  Here’s Chuck quoting Wasserman in First Read.
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Duval County (Jacksonville) is a place of some strange happenings — it has the only Northern-flowing major river in America for instance — but check out its bizarro voting shifts.  In 2004, Bush won 58-42% there; he won 220K votes to John Kerry’s 158K.
But in 2008, the county split about 50-50%.  McCain won 188K votes [...]

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With 54% reporting, Obama is leading 51-49% statewide.  But with 95% reporting, he’s up by 13% points in Wake County (Raleigh). Wake is kind of like North Carolina’s version of Fairfax County — it used to be Republican but is trending blue on account of tens of thousands of new young professionals.
Liddy Dole won [...]

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OBAMA WINS THE PRESIDENCY.

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