A one-in-a-million chance for Democrats.
ALABAMA is another case of a Southern state lurching toward the GOP as its electorate grows larger (and remains racially polarized). Just as in Louisiana, it first topped 1 million votes in 1968, when segregationist George Wallace, running as an independent, won the state overwhelmingly. There was a reversion to Democratic habit in 1976, when Carter was the first Southern nominee to win strong support from both white and black voters, but the state's white majority shifted to the Republicans for good just four years later. The state hit 2 million votes in 2008, when McCain's margin of 453,067 was only slightly below that for Bush in the previous election (482,461).
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