Like Guam?
Problem is if you ever get any traction, the left will just match your efforts. They will always be much better funded than us.
Vermonters are a strange lot. Don’t forget they’ve been sending an avowed socialist (millionaire Bernie Sanders) to Washington DC for years now.
I’d just be happy if we could flip New Hampshire and turn that red again. And not in the Hank Johnson/Guam way, al baby!
You could flip Ohio, with fewer people, but you would have to live in Ohio.
Decades ago, Vermont was reliably Republican.
From what I have heard, so many liberal expatriate New Yorkers and Bostonians moved there, that they tipped the balance of that state. Poster boys for this are Howard Dean and Bernie Sanders. Neither is a Vermont native.
By my calculations, if about half of the adult population voted, about 12,000 conservatives would have to move there. Or conversely, they would have to remove 12,000 dead people and felons from the rolls
Why bother? It’s a whopping 3 electoral votes.
BTW, Vermont is not land locked. Lake Champlain is connected to the Hudson River via canal. One can navigate from the Atlantic Ocean to the lake.
The difference is approximately 106,420. Assuming 100% vote and your adding all Republicans then you would need at least 106,420 +1. Less if some Democrats don’t vote.
Perhaps we could ask the overseas military to declare that their home state so they could vote there. They may have to pay state income tax. (3.55 - 8.95%)
Libertarians trying the same thing in New Hampster.
Assuming no Democrats left the state, it would take at least 100,000 conservatives to make the state competitive.
The Dem Candidate base vote ranges from 190,000 to 220,000
The GOP Candidate base vote ranges from 80,000 to 110,000
My heart goes out to the real Americans in Vermont. Keep the faith.
Why would you want to flip Vermont?
Then it would look like Delaware. ;)
About 9% would do it. How many actually voted in 2014?
Then again in 2012 Obama whipped Mittens by 66.57% to 30.97%
199,239 votes to 92,698
Send Vermont the latest shipments of illegal aliens from Mexico and the Middle East. That ought to do it.
The downside for the conservatives: they’d have to MOVE there.
Statehood should be taken from Vermont and the rest of the city-states in the area. They should be joined onto some adjacent state, or all aggregated into one state. That would take a few lib. Senators out, a very good thing.
Great.
Another math question.
Let’s see.
Is it not done enough on one side?
I say we hire Larry, Daryl and Daryl to work public relations.
“A chicken in every pot and a possum in every frying pan!”
We can’t lose.
Problem is if you ever get any traction, the left will just match your efforts. They will always be much better funded than us.
“If conservatives were to move there from another state, how many would be needed to flip the state red?”
Why? Who in their right mind would move from Texas (or any other free state) to a Communist controlled viper pit? I remember Vermont before the Communist revolution by the refugees from NY, Ma, Ct, etc.
Vermont is already RED. Commie Red.