Holy Kazooties!

The eight states nearest 50% Preznitial approval are:

• a) still below it;
• b) stuck in the f%sk$in' sticks, every single one.

What do AK, ID, NV, WY, NE, OK, LA, and MS have in common?

"The back of beyond" as one of the Slangwhanger-in-Chief's Irish great-grandmothers would have phrased it. "Out where God lost his shoes," as Jean Ann Goldy taught the S-i-C, or "Way past the corner of 99th Street and ploughed ground," as Bob Cage used to say.