And the Atlas Forum's Favorite State is...

[retromike22]

Washington      (72%)

Vermont       (28%)

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=206253.0

Well done, Atlas Forum. It was fun to see which states were weeded out and which survived. That WA/CA runoff sealed the deal, and I always felt the state that won that runoff would have won eventually. (which is why I had a CA bias).

I might do this again a year from now. What's interesting is that I started this as a result of the cities thread, which was won by Seattle. And that's the largest city of the eventual state winner.

[Mr. Smith]

I had guessed Colorado given that that's the state that won by the default of NO votes in this thread's counterpart.

Not surprised since Seattle won with the cities (but not Goldwater's Metro area)

Polarization is a funny beast huh.

EDIT: I'll be bumping this in a moment to the halves, the PV (if they are different), and my own map against Atlasia

[Mr. Smith]

They aren't really thanks to a lot of convenient ties and well thought-out eliminations, but here's what Atlas thought. Red for Top 25 of Atlas/ Blue for the other side and Grey for the middle state since DC is included.

And here's the result without PV

And here's how that compares to my own (my preferences in Red, Atlas in Blue, Overlap in Green)

[Goldwater]

Red=Atlas, Blue=mine, Green=overlap.

Idaho is interesting, because not only was it my middle state, it was also in the top half of this one or the bottom half of the other one.

[Boston Bread]

red - states I like more than the US as a whole
red - states I dislike more than the US as a whole
grey - meh