A Red Christmas

I may not add any updates for a week or so. I'm leaving the comfort of blue-state Maryland to spend the holiday with the in-laws in Oklahoma. (Click on that to see just how red red can be.) Oklahoma and Utah are the only states where every single county voted for Bush this year. But that's not all -- Bush won with more than 60 percent of the vote among all age groups. And among families making over $50,000, he got 75 percent of the vote. Even in "big cities" (a relative term), he got 67 percent.

Among my Oklahoma family, they're about evenly split among Democrats and Republicans -- and they're all great people. So in the spirit of the holiday season, I'll have to accept that this isn't the time to try to reverse a 40-year trend of electing Republicans.