I believe he will do all that, AND, I have been predicting strongly a race nobody believes, and nobody is talking about, but I am strongly confident that Romney will take IL, everybody thinks I am crazy, but I am standing by it, I even have money on it.
I don’t know about IL.. but I wouldn’t say its impossible.. IL will come down to Chicago (like most of the supercity rust belt states) IL being the toughest becaust its supercity is just so rediculously overrepresented.. Chicago is something like 22-25% of the states population.
HOWEVER if Chicago dems are dejected it is possible... but a long shot.
I think MN is more likely to be a suprise swing than IL, but if IL falls, then certainly every other rust belt state including MN will fall. If Obama can’t hold IL he won’t hold anything in the rust belt.
Just a few more hours and we know for sure.