[wagglebee]

And Mississippi, Alabama, Utah, Alaska, etc.

[HostileTerritory]

No President alienated the base in my liftetime more than George H.W. Bush, and he faced both a superficial moderate in the Democratic Party and a conservative southerner running as an independent.

Nonetheless, the states you listed never went into play and Bush won all of them.

[JamesP81]

And Mississippi, Alabama, Utah, Alaska, etc.

Kentucky. The 1st district in KY voted for a republican in 1994 for the first time since the War Between the States because of the Assault Weapons Ban. A gun grabber like Rudy is not going to play well here, and history proves it.