By Philip Bump
The Washington Post - February 5, 2015
The reddest states in America in 2014 were Utah and Wyoming, according to Gallup surveys. The most Democratic were Massachusetts and Maryland -- states that last November elected new, Republican governors.
Every
year Gallup provides an assessment of how Democratic and Republican
states are, by subtracting the percentage that identifies with one party
from the percentage that identifies with the other. In 2014, 51.4
percent of Marylanders were Democratic or leaned Democratic, compared
with 29.6 percent that felt that way about Republicans. That's a net
margin of 21.8 percentage points for the Dems.
But clearly this
isn't politically predictive, since the new governor of that state is
Larry Hogan (R), not Anthony Brown (D). What the Gallup data is instead
particularly good at is showing trends over time.
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