in anticipation of arrival at Quartzsite at election time, and before the big swap meets there. I've heard there are some who register two states, vote absentee in one and in person at another. I don't know, just what I've read, and wonder if there is any mechanism in place to prevent that?
It is still demographics. "R" voters are largely retirees, just as Fox News rates very low in the under-55 sampling. Fox news ratings are high for only one reason: Retirees that watch nothing else all damn day! (My DAD!) Drives my mom crazy. She'll switch it to classic movies. And my stupid dad clicks the damn thing back to Fox. Working folks watch an hour of MSNBC or CNN cant hold a ratings-candle to that.
Arizona is so full of blue-hairs all winter long, that disappear back home in summer. It is the "snowbird" counties that had the highest percentage of Romney voters, Quartzsite alone has only a few hundred year-round residents, yet over 150,000 winter visitors that fill the RV parks and homes abandoned all the rest of the year.
Here's my prediction. 2014 might just be surprising especially after current events, but 2016 will be definitely a "blue landslide". The VA has taken note how the U.S. is quickly running out of WWII veterans--- exactly who "R" campaigns for! Though some echo's of grandpa's warnings about "them damn socialists" will continue to resonate through some younger folks, many recognize the old battle cry of calling practically any social program "socialism" as false and paranoid.
Their base is dying off. The younger snowbirds will still have some strong "R" showing for some time. But polls of young folks, everywhere show their "R" percentages as very, very low-- around 11 percent. Montana, Wyoming, and "redneck counties" in Arizona will stay "red". But, much like some other largely "red" states in the country, the urban areas don't fall for that garbage so easily.
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