[motife]

Here are the state's Bush most increased his %age in, 2004% Bush, 2000% Bush, and %change :

1 HI ----- 45.63% ----- 37.79% ----- 7.84%
2 RI ----- 39.14% ----- 32.23% ----- 6.91%
3 NJ ----- 46.62% ----- 40.54% ----- 6.08%
4 AL ----- 62.69% ----- 56.97% ----- 5.73%
5 TN ----- 57.01% ----- 51.46% ----- 5.55%
6 CT ----- 44.40% ----- 38.92% ----- 5.47%
7 NY ----- 40.58% ----- 35.58% ----- 5.00%
8 OK ----- 65.56% ----- 61.08% ----- 4.48%
9 MA ----- 37.30% ----- 32.92% ----- 4.38%
10 NE ----- 66.98% ----- 62.86% ----- 4.11%
11 WV ----- 56.22% ----- 52.36% ----- 3.87%
12 LA ----- 57.17% ----- 53.30% ----- 3.86%
13 DE ----- 45.92% ----- 42.16% ----- 3.76%
14 KS ----- 62.53% ----- 58.84% ----- 3.69%
15 UT ----- 72.01% ----- 68.32% ----- 3.69%
16 AZ ----- 55.26% ----- 51.67% ----- 3.58%
17 FL ----- 52.30% ----- 49.18% ----- 3.12%
18 MD ----- 43.54% ----- 40.42% ----- 3.12%
19 IN ----- 60.54% ----- 57.51% ----- 3.04%
20 KY ----- 59.71% ----- 56.86% ----- 2.85%
21 MO ----- 53.67% ----- 50.86% ----- 2.81%
22 GA ----- 58.42% ----- 55.69% ----- 2.73%
23 CA ----- 44.79% ----- 42.11% ----- 2.69%
24 AR ----- 54.65% ----- 52.02% ----- 2.63%
25 IL ----- 45.01% ----- 42.86% ----- 2.15%
26 NM ----- 50.31% ----- 48.18% ----- 2.13%
27 PA ----- 48.87% ----- 46.84% ----- 2.03%
28 AK ----- 62.80% ----- 60.84% ----- 1.96%
29 TX ----- 61.51% ----- 59.64% ----- 1.87%
30 MS ----- 59.93% ----- 58.12% ----- 1.81%
31 MN ----- 47.92% ----- 46.15% ----- 1.77%
32 MI ----- 48.03% ----- 46.42% ----- 1.61%
33 IA ----- 50.26% ----- 48.71% ----- 1.54%
34 WI ----- 49.53% ----- 48.06% ----- 1.47%
35 VA ----- 54.35% ----- 52.96% ----- 1.39%
36 SC ----- 58.49% ----- 57.30% ----- 1.20%
37 WA ----- 46.04% ----- 45.08% ----- 0.95%
38 OR ----- 48.03% ----- 47.22% ----- 0.81%
39 CO ----- 52.34% ----- 51.58% ----- 0.76%
40 OH ----- 51.25% ----- 50.51% ----- 0.74%
41 ND ----- 63.14% ----- 62.53% ----- 0.61%
42 ME ----- 45.02% ----- 44.53% ----- 0.50%
43 NV ----- 51.03% ----- 50.55% ----- 0.48%
44 NH ----- 48.99% ----- 48.67% ----- 0.32%
45 DC ----- 9.31% ----- 9.01% ----- 0.30%
46 ID ----- 69.29% ----- 69.06% ----- 0.23%
47 WY ----- 69.50% ----- 69.44% ----- 0.06%
48 MT ----- 59.66% ----- 59.78% ----- -0.12%
49 NC ----- 56.29% ----- 56.46% ----- -0.18%
50 SD ----- 60.23% ----- 61.61% ----- -1.38%
51 VT ----- 39.10% ----- 41.42% ----- -2.32%

[IStillBelieve]

It would be interesting to extrapolate the 2000-2004 Bush/Kerry vote trends to figure out which states will be red and which states blue in '08.

[elli1]

This is very interesting. Thank you much for posting!

[silverleaf]

election results ping

[southernnorthcarolina]

Wow, it was an inspired bit of strategy on Senator Kerry's part to select a Southern running mate, don't you think? How'd that work out?

Here's a little something for Dems to ponder...

[proudpapa]

IT's amazing that most of the states on Kerry's list did have substantial support for Nader 4 years ago. i.e. Oregon, Minnesota, Vermont...etc.

[festus]

I haven't seen anyone say it yet but of this new voter that broke heavily for bush how many were "unlikely voters" .