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Red Wave, Blue Wall

by Jim Buckley

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Santa Barbara Current
Nov 07, 2024
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The “Blue Wall” Comes Tumbling Down

It may (or may not) have come four years too late, but the elusive and much-touted Republican “Red Wave” finally did appear, most definitely in the American heartland. Although the Blue Wall of California, Oregon, and Washington prevented the wave from cresting onto the shores of the Pacific, it did wash over the more …

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