Deja Vu All Over Again

Bush Vote Regression, originally uploaded by pklinkne.

After the 2000 election, Democrats demanded that we vote again. Well, we have. Bush did about 3-4 points better this time than last, but there were very few changes in the state-level Bush vote between 2000 and 2004. In fact, knowing how well Bush did in 2000 explains nearly all (96%) the variance in Bush's 2004 vote.