New Polls from Idaho and California

[book_worm]

Idaho: McCain over Obama, 53-37 (not bad when you consider that Bush won Idaho over Kerry 69-30).
(Research 2000, 500 LV, +/- 4.5%)

California: Obama over McCain 50/35 (previous poll was 54-37 in Obama's favor, so little change)
(PPIC, 1401 LV, +/- 2.6%)

http://www.pollster.com

[BrklynLiberal]

1. What's wrong with Idaho?

[a kennedy]

2. don't' they have a ton of white, gun owing, bud drinking, right-wingers??

what's that white group called.....lives in the hills kinda like survivalists??? May-be that's why. :shrug:

[Frances]

8. I am not sure but I think Idaho has a lot of Mormons

who are reliably Republican, especially since Romney is such a high profile Republican. There has never been a Morman president or vice-predident, so Mormons will turn out in huge numbers if Romney is the vp candidate for the Repubs. I think Nevada and Colorado also have many Mormons and they could tip those states to McCain if Romney is on the ticket.

[rniel]

20. mormons

I'm from idaho and have heard (though don't know if it's true) that idaho has more mormons per capita than Utah does.

[Political Heretic]

13. It's the second most conservative state in the union.

After Utah.

It has a high population of Mormons, which tend to vote conservative - right up there with Utah. It's conservatism could be described as "arch" with a streak of Libertarianism.

[rox63]

3. I don't think anyone is expecting ID to turn blue

And I think we can safely assume that UT and WY will stay red as well.

[grantcart]

5. somebody from Idaho said that McCain was running ads there

so that's good

[rox63]

11. I think it's great that McLame is having to defend in places like ID

Make him spend his $$ defending formerly-guaranteed red states.

[Political Heretic]

14. Pretty sure someone just saw a national ad on a cable station.

I've yet to see any actual ads on Idaho air.

[book_worm]

6. Nobody is expecting Idaho to turn Blue, but Obama is still running better than any dem in a general

election in that state in many years.

[whistle]

4. How does Dean's 50 state strategy work with Idaho?

[book_worm]

9. Well, considering that Obama is running better than any democrat for president in ID at this point

in many years (10% undecided) and that in the House race the GOP candidate leads the Dem by only 42-32, then I think the 50-state strategy is going well in Idaho. You know we aren't going to win all the fifty states but we are competitive in many of them that we haven't been in years.

[rox63]

12. Even if we don't win there

We'll make the GOP spend their $$ defending the red states.

[Political Heretic]

15. You want a serious answer? I live there and I'll tell you how:

Thanks to Dean, the struggling Idaho Democratic Party had enough money to help win several key races in 2006, and it had the money to do grassroots community building. That had never happened before.

Dean kept true to his word, and the national party invested money into the state party, and thanks to that investment we elected a couple more democrats to the legislature because they had enough money to run an actual campaign.

That's how you turn Idaho blue. We keep getting a few more, and keep supporting the state party so that it can continue to do grassroots organizing.

If it wasn't for Dean's strategy - we wouldn't have had any of the successes we have recently had.

[LSK]

21. bleeding McCains resources on solid "safe" red states

[whistle]

22. All good points, thanks

[Dollface]

7. Guess I won't be moving to Idaho. Probably can't get a decent latte there anyway.

[Larkspur]

10. Move to Montana

Gov. Brian Schweitzer is one of my political heros. Montana is turning blue thanks to him.

[Dollface]

16. I've always liked the concept of Montana. Sounds like a place to disappear into.

[Political Heretic]

17. You can in Boise. Flying M is the best coffee in the northwest! :)

[Dollface]

19. Good to know if I'm ever in Boise. I was just pretending to be elitist anyway.

[demokatgurrl]

18. Now THAT is good news

How many electoral votes does Idaho have? CA of course has many many.