That's some nice work you did for 2008,
@Thande, and at least it looks pretty close to what actually happened in 2008 (the first election I saw when at uni). As for concerns for our Western Canadian equivalents that there may not be enough variation and all that - don't worry about it! As you and I well know, the strong results of the Tories and all that actually reflected what happened in Canada at that time (though I do find it interesting what would happen combining the results for the NWT and Nunavut). The results seem about right, especially if one drops any preconceptions based on OTL. We'd have to find reasons that would explain some of the anomalies - in New Mexico's case, probably because the local Tories did a good job reaching out to the Hispanic community, for example. Or in the case of the three BC-esque states, where we have what Colin Woodard in his book
American Nations calls the split between the "Left Coast" and the "Far West", we'll have to analyze the BC results and see what happened, and/or we can say that every coastal community is like Orange County. Some definite fruits for analysis for those who want to over-think things. As for the Grits and Rhode Island - I don't know about what actually happened in PEI, but in RI's case I see it as OTL finally spilling over, at least in terms of the Democratic dominance here (with all the problems and corruption it entails), and that's despite a GOP governor in Carcieri - who, despite he being the one behind the genesis of the 38 Studios scandal and the so-called "Big Audit" that was supposed to find government waste left and right but didn't, was actually very close to the traditional New England Republican worldview. Now, if you
really want something that would raise eyebrows in both Canada and the UK, not to mention the US, how about having
a former PM representing
his disgraced successor in a series of legal cases (cf.
http://www.providencejournal.com/article/20140416/NEWS/304169947 ) - when that same former PM replaced someone with a pre-MeToo harrassment problem (cf.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2002/09/20/ri-house-speaker-post-threatened.html - yes, it's Fox News, but here it's a strict quotation from the AP, and I remember the local media here going nuts over John Harwood's downfall). Madness? THIS. IS.
RHODE ISLAND!!!