US Election 2012

Bobbo - they would be unelectable without the Hispanic vote - demographically they rely on the middle aged affluent white men and women . They would have to change to get elected in the same way that the Tories here lost three elections because they'd shifted to the Eurosceptic right. The Tories now are a 'triumph' of marketing.

Is that true? I'm not massively up on US politics but from a map to me it looks like Republicans hold the large backwoods type areas of the state and most states with major industrial, capital, or economic centre tend to be republican.

Re Tories I think your stretching a bit there. The country was tired and wanted a change. There was no credible opposition and then Blaire appeared. Then the country got tired and there was a credible opposition and it got voted in.