Gallup Ranks Red And Blue States
It sure seems like everything gets a ranking these days - the best college basketball teams, the top-grossing movies, the five best burger joints in your town, the greatest double-play combinations of the modern era - on and on. So why not politics? Well, Gallup, as in the Gallup Poll, has taken its mountains of data collected in poll after poll and compiled a partisan ranking of states, Democratic and Republican. NPR's Don Gonyea looks at