This site on CNN allows one to look county by county through each state as the returns come in. It’s fascinating. What one sees everywhere is that each state mirrors the national vote in that Kerry wins big in the old-line central cities, but outside of those the results are mixed and Kerry is decidedly weak. Kerry isn’t even winning in some of the traditional left-wing college-town counties, like Douglas County, KS. For example, check out New York. Outside of NYC and Albany, Kerry is weak and probably even losing on the whole.

If you click on a specific county you can see the actual vote within that county. This shows Kerry up over Bush 70-29 in Boulder County, CO, while he is only up 57-42 in Westchester County, NY. Kerry is only weakly ahead in Miami-Dade. Bush seems to be winning most counties in MI. Quite a surprise.

Forget the state totals and the projections. If Kerry can only weakly win Miami-Dade and Westchester, he’s toast.

Are you willing to admit the error of your ways yet jerry?

BeckyJ,

As a former (tenured) academic, I would strongly recommend that you not sponsor the college Republicans next year. I wouldn’t breathe a pro-Republican word if I were you until I had tenure. Academic politics is mean and nasty to the nth degree.

Katherine,

Don’t worry: it wouldn’t have made any difference for you to tell people about voting for Bush. The Kerry voters had all made up their minds before we invaded Afghanistan.