Hey, Dems, want to win the Mountain West and cinch national political domination?

Then full-throatedly support abortion rights.



See, you weren't going to win Utah or Idaho anyway, they're "red"er than the Deep South--lots o' crazies out there. But the rest of the West is suprisingly more liberal on civil liberties than "blue" states like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. And Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are going to vote for Dems because of labor and anti-war sentiment. Hell, you're not that far away in Nevada and Arizona (and I'm not talking about this map, I'm talking about middle-class people feeling the squeeze and a conservationist streak). Why have they gone "red" in the past? Taxes and war. But war is flagging as a reason (on account of the cluster fuck), and all you got to do is tell them the truth, we want to repeal tax cuts for rich people and give them to middle class and working people. Also, stop talking down. Seriously.

Let's not forget the point of this map. If Dems don't wise up, put the internal squabbling aside, and get to it in '06 and '08, we could lose Roe v. Wade, and 200,000,000 people might be living in no-abortion states. The social repercussions of that would be disastrous.