VT: Castleton Polling Institute: 'Looking like 2008 again in Vermont

[Miles]

New Poll: Vermont President by Castleton Polling Institute on 2012-8-22

Summary: D: 62%, R: 25%, I: 6%, U: 7%

Poll Source URL: Full Poll Details

[MorningInAmerica]

New Poll: Vermont President by Castleton Polling Institute on 2012-8-22

Summary: D: 62%, R: 25%, I: 6%, U: 7%

Poll Source URL: Full Poll Details

Wow. I hear Utah's leaning towards Romney.

[Likely Voter]

I'm a west coast guy so i really dont get why NH and VT are so different

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

I'm a west coast guy so i really dont get why NH and VT are so different

I've been trying to figure that out for years.

[MorningInAmerica]

I'm a west coast guy so i really dont get why NH and VT are so different

I've been trying to figure that out for years.

Would love to hear someone from New England explain that one. They're like day and night.

[Lief 🗽]

Dominating.

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

I love Vermont. 

[5280]

Democrat 4 life state...

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Would love to hear someone from New England explain that one. They're like day and night.

New Hampshire contains Boston exurbs. Vermont does not. And that's pretty much the only place you can find GOP voters in New England: affluent exurbs.

[Eraserhead]

Look at the kind of people who live in Vermont: hippies, farmers, hippie-farmers, etc.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Would love to hear someone from New England explain that one. They're like day and night.

New Hampshire contains Boston exurbs. Vermont does not. And that's pretty much the only place you can find GOP voters in New England: affluent exurbs.

People who have fled Massachusetts so as to live among, shall we say, like-minded fellow people who have fled Massachusetts go to New Hampshire. People who have fled Massachusetts so as to live among cows and sugar shacks go to Vermont.

Of note is that parts of New Hampshire that neighbor Vermont are in fact roughly analogous culturally and politically to the parts of Vermont that they neighbor. Although the left bank of the Connecticut River is still a bit less Democratic than the right, the real point of division starts when you get over towards Manchester and Nashua.

[old timey villain]

I remember going to New Hampshire to visit a college friend during winter break my Freshman year of college. I didn't know much about the politics of NH, but it was in New England, so I figured everyone would be really liberal.

I decided to let my lib flag fly up there since I figured everyone would agree with me. I got smacked down so many times. Most of the people I met were actually really conservative. I don't know enough about either state to decide why NH is much more conservative, but from experience I know that it really is.

[Phony Moderate]

Vermont didn't leave the Republican Party; the Republican Party left Vermont.

[old timey villain]

Look at the kind of people who live in Vermont: hippies, farmers, hippie-farmers, etc.

Come on, isn't that sort of an exaggeration? I mean, yeah, there are a lot of those types in Vermont, but they certainly don't make up a majority of the state's population. I think certain conservatives hold this fantasy that all of Vermont's Democratic votes come from wacko commies, which isn't the case.

Most Vermont residents seem to be just normal, small town folks, who are actually pretty moderate. If they were truly far far left, the state would have shifted D much sooner than it did. I just think that most of them don't feel any connection to the GOP anymore. They have become the party of the white south and have kind of abandoned their old base up there.

[Eraserhead]

Look at the kind of people who live in Vermont: hippies, farmers, hippie-farmers, etc.

Come on, isn't that sort of an exaggeration? I mean, yeah, there are a lot of those types in Vermont, but they certainly don't make up a majority of the state's population. I think certain conservatives hold this fantasy that all of Vermont's Democratic votes come from wacko commies, which isn't the case.

Most Vermont residents seem to be just normal, small town folks, who are actually pretty moderate. If they were truly far far left, the state would have shifted D much sooner than it did. I just think that most of them don't feel any connection to the GOP anymore. They have become the party of the white south and have kind of abandoned their old base up there.

My post was only meant to be half serious.