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I spent memorable time on the ground in New Jersey and Mississippi, but didn’t stay overnight. The others, I’m not so sure. For North Carolina we drove across the border just to say we’d been there.
If you set foot on the ground in MN, it counts. If they had you climb on top of the wing of one plane and jump to the wing of the other plane, no, it doesn’t count.
There’s a lot to see when you get there. Jon, go back to your youth and backpack through Europe. Best thing I ever did.
Just be sure to pretend you’re Canadian. Or maybe Australian…
Lived in 5 states. Have been in every state except South Dakota, Hawaii and Alaska. If you call stopping in Anchorage and disembarking into the terminal while your plane is refueled I’ve got Alaska also.
I did the map just for the fun of seeing Washington, New York and Texas finally get together on something….
On the Tim Pool podcast today, they speculated that Trump supporters are playing a practical joke on pollsters. Telling them that they support Biden, when they really intend to vote for Trump. Just to see liberal heads explode, and fresh floods of liberal tears.
Its not likely, but a funny idea.
Obviously, I don’t know the extent, but people here on Ricochet are doing it. I’ve seen a couple of people mention it.
I remember that. It was pretty cool.
Funny. It seems like such a long shot, that a group could plan this out, and then be called by a pollster to do it. Either the effect is marginal or it lights up the pollsters prejudiced models like a Christmas tree and the effect becomes magnified.
This is my 2020 map, I was just thinking, wouldnt it be funny if Oregon and/or Washington state flip because metro turnout is depressed and the rural areas of the state vote Trump? Would really take the pressure of winning Michigan or Minnesota if that could happen. I dont think any of the major Trump surrogates has visited anywhere near the pacific coast lately… So its probably not a possibility.
Just like the last election, I’ll be at work trying to get results from crashing news sites.
Under the ocean is another story.
@percival, you were on this side of the state and didn’t contact me? I could have had you over for pizza.
276 Trump, 218 Biden, the rest not visited or lived in
Does swimming ashore to take a pee in Pennsylvania count?
Does driving through a state count as a visit? Because that changes everything.
Two things:
(1) If you really want to understand America, take road trips.
(2) Anyone up for a meetup in Alaska?
I’ll try it later, after I vote . . .
Back. Here it is:
During the South Dakota Meetup trip, I knocked off Iowa, South Dakota, and Wyoming.
@vinceguerra @alsparks
Who else lives in Alaska? (Small state, I know.)
Gauleiter Gretchen shut down the state.
Pshht! Were we going to let that stop us?
Visited every state but AR, MS, AL. Finishing up all 50 is on the bucket list.
Lived in IN, MI, CA (2x), OH, WA, ID
Well, my husband’s entire family are registered Democrats because they think it affects how certain agencies respond to them. They are all as red as your blood. My brother in law was in between jobs and was having a hard time getting is OCare. As soon as he registered as a Democrat, the process was perfect. It may just be confirmation bias, but there you have it.
Another person we know switches parties to the out party to vote in the opposite party’s primary (so he’s always a primary voter, regardless of incumbent).
This cleared up a misconception I’ve had for years. I visited Yellowstone National Park in 1996 and we spent a day in the park and the night outside the west gate before spending a second day in the park and starting the trip back to Kansas. For a long time I’ve thought that was in Idaho and counted Idaho as a visited state, but I checked today and it’s Montana. I’ve changed planes in Seattle and Salt Lake City but I don’t count those.
I’ve only lived in one state. Actually only one city.
I’ve always wondered but never formally counted. I’ve missed ten out of the fifty states.
Oh I stayed at that west gate at Yellowstone too. I should change Montana then to visited.
I remembered the trivia during our visit that little bits of Yellowstone are in Idaho and Montana too. For some reason, West Yellowstone changed from Montana to Idaho in my memory at some point.
Why not just own property in Hell, Michigan?