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Mount Seymour wrote:

Kawastyselir already pointed this out with better explanation than I could give, but I want to reinforce this point: You do live in a swing state. You are actually one of the few of us, I think, who lives in a state that could tip the election! Your state may have been deep red in the past, but it's on the line now.

On this I'd like to reinforce the point that swing states don't really exist. There's a convention that some states are solid and some are swing, but this can change if demographics shift, or even more quickly if there's a shift in platforms. For the past 30 years the electoral map has only slowly changed, as policy line were fairly fossilized, but from a historical perspective that is the exception, not the rule, and it is very likely that this period of stagnation is nearing it's end, as both demographics and platforms are shifting.