Insightful as always, my brother Joel sends me a table of state election results sorted by per-capita income. Basically, the higher the per-capita income in a state, the more likely it went for Kerry.
Other ways of looking at the data: the less advantageous the ratio of money contributed to the Federal budget to money received from it, the more likely a state was to go for Kerry. That’s right, the states most in favor of the “small government” argument are those that benefit most from it.
The less likely a state was to actually be hit by terrorism, the more likely it was to favor Bush’s “keep us safe from bees by throwing rocks at the nest” terror policy.
I haven’t checked this data to see if it’s accurate, I’m just posting it. What am I, a reputable news source?
Secretly Ironic 