All in all, which state (or district) were you the most surprised Obama won?

[Bicoastal]

BTW, did anyone know that VERMONT of all places used to be the most Republican state in the country? In the 217 years of its existence, the state has voted for a Democratic President in exactly SIX elections: LBJ in 1964, Clinton in 1992, and every election since then.

[democrattotheend]

1. I predicted Indiana could be competitive in March of 2007

But I did not think a Democrat would actually win it.

[Sebastian Doyle]

2. I'm surprised Florida wasn't stolen again

Though I'm sure they tried.

[Zynx]

5. Theft can only really happen at the margins.

I have yet to see many cases of macro theft in this country. No, I do not believe 2004 was stolen.

[Clovis Sangrail]

3. there was so much more McCain stuff around here I was really suprised about Fl. /nt

[Zynx]

4. Indiana. That's as Republican as it gets outside of the crazy parts of the West.

Not anymore though. My entire conception of the American political map was altered by these results this time.

[camera obscura]

6. A tie between IN, NC & NE's district

I didn't see any of those as true battlegrounds until a few days before the election, and even then I couldn't believe we would actually win them.

[ShadowLiberal]

7. I thought for sure that Obama would fall a few points short in Indiana

A 20%+ gap he would need to make up for that Kerry had in order to win the state seemed undoable, even if Obama was a next door senator and some of the state shared a media market with Illinois.