There's a process for deciding which bases to close. This is just the beginning and there's more than likely to be some fancy shuffling like there has been in the past. I hope you're reading too much into the red v blue states. If you look at county-level maps what you see is a purple country with a few bright red and a few bright blue counties. Here's an interesting geographical study of the voter stats (http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/). I doubt any politician writes-off a state because of a presidential election. Instead, they spend their time trying to hold onto their own patch and see if they can snake-in some suckers from other folks' patches.

I wish they'd close all that need closing rather than dribbling them out over decades. It's wasting billions of dollars to keep them all open.

Now if we could only retire about half the existing carrier battle fleets and ballistic missle subs and 8,000-10,000 nukular warheads I'd be even happier.