State of Absaroka (NYTimes article)

I was wondering if anyone else saw this article in yesterday's New York Times...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/24/us/24wpa.html?em&ex=1217131200&en=1c6aa349dddfed6f&ei=5087

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I'm busy at work right now, but surely this might make for some interesting ATLs...how would 3 more staunchly conservative electoral votes change things? Would a successful new-state formation here encourage any of the other groups (NYC/Long Island, Northern California and obviously many more that I can't think of at the moment)?
 
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