Whatever.
"On Fourth, Obama focuses on turning red states blue
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - It will be a red state Fourth of July for Barack Obama, who hopes to find votes as well as fireworks in places that blue state Democrats often bypass in presidential elections.
During the long holiday weekend, Obama is making an all-American swing from picnics to parades in reliably Republican corners of the country, states such as North Dakota and Montana. Both have voted Republican for the White House by hefty margins for almost four decades. Neither state offers many electoral votes - three apiece - but appearances there give Obama the opportunity to argue that he can appeal to voters of all stripes.
"It may have been Woody Allen who said 90 percent of success is showing up," Obama told a small but enthusiastic crowd of donors at a fund-raiser here. "If I didn't show up, I wouldn't get many votes around here. If I did show up, I might get something going."
Colorado, where Obama spent Wednesday, has unexpectedly tipped from a GOP stronghold into the battleground column this year. Ohio and Missouri, which went Republican in 2004, got Obama visits this week. Tomorrow brings a second trip to Missouri, another swing state.
Democrats have made gains in recent gubernatorial and congressional races in the states. Montana's governor and two US senators are Democrats. North Dakota's governor is a Republican, but the state's two senators are Democrats (AP July 4, 2008)."
So why is Obama turning into a Republican before our eyes, folks?
The FOOLEYS getting to you, too?
