Reply #34: I think that this is helped by the suburbs becoming blue [View All]

[Ignacio Upton]

And. this may be argueable, but maybe Clinton's "New Democrat" platform (but not Al From cowardice, that's something else) allowed for say, Westchester County, NY to morph from a red bastion into a blue one (my county was the only suburban NYC county north of NYC, which includes Rockland, Putnam, and Dutchess, not to vote for Bush and Kerry won by 15% in a county that voted Republican in every election from 1964 to 1992) and Long Island has also been getting bluer. In Connecticut, Fairfield County, home of Greenwich and other "Country Club Republican" strongholds has gotten blue as well. Same holds true in NJ (except for Morris County, which avoided the political realignment) and MA and NH and PA near Philadelphia.