Deep Political Divide Splits Washington State

Reliably blue, Washington hasn't voted for a Republican president since 1984.

ByABC News
October 27, 2008, 12:01 PM

RENTON, Wash. -- If this election is about change, as Barack Obama and John McCain say, Democrats here in Washington state are asking voters not to go too far.

An increasingly blue state on the national electoral map, Washington hasn't voted for a Republican for president since Ronald Reagan in 1984.