Sometimes the most bland makes for the best compromise. I'm not sure I'd apply that logic to the Dakotas, but I certainly would to Deleware.
Deleware really does have a lot going for it. How about climate:
Wilmington has the most weather data so I'll post that:
# of days per year with:
clear skies: 97
Partly cloudy: 104
Cloudy: 164
Average wind speed MPH: 9.0
Average snowfall: 20.5"
Average precip: 42.81"
Average number of precip days: 117
Average humidity morning/afternoon: 78/55
Annual average temp: 54.4
So the temperature is warm (even warmer than Boise, making it the warmest city in the FSP candidates), the wind isn't too much, and there's not a whole lot of snow. In fact, in temperature, snow and wind, it's very comparable to Boise. It's more humid, significantly more rainy and less sunny than Boise.
Deleware was somewhere recently ranked #1 in the nation for economic freedom (for whatever that's worth). Clearly Deleware is *very* business friendly and access to employment is easy. Wilmington has a good job market, particularly for financial services. Philly is an easy commute as is Baltimore and the DC area.
The population is low, the voting population is low, voter turnout is low, and as was pointed out in this thread, the number of people voting in the primaries was *very* low this year. Based on these factors, it appears that Deleware could be easy to influence with our target of 20,000 people. It is more compact, so a smaller number of activists could cover a larger percentage of the physical area of the state, potentially making our most active activists more effective than they could be in a geographically large and climatalogically unfavorable state like Wyoming.
That's all I've got for now.
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