In track and field this is called a false start.
Depressing. We are headed towards Obama as the needy have exceeded the producers, even if that means healthy, but on the dole.
Cool. So according to your math the country will have 567 electoral votes and two presidents.
That’s interesting. Sadly the great state of Colorado appears to be gone.
PA looked better in 2010 — there may be some movement in the Right direction.
I thought IA had been consistently Dem the last few cycles.
WI may be moving our way — knocking out Feingold was a very good sign.
Not sure about NC.
Howsabout the reapportionment? Losses in all the Blue states can’t help our Kenyan POTUS and has to help us a lot.
Not to mention the newly-Republican statehouses that could gerrymander in OUR favor (for a change).
I think the GOP needs to win all the states McCain won in ‘08, plus FL, OH, IN and NC. That would give them 253 votes. From there, they’ll need 17 more votes, probably from VA and one other state (possibly NV or CO).
Paman12, you are making the assumption that Obama will run.
It is, in my opinion, highly unlikely that Obama is a natural born citizen. He might have been audacious enough to pull off scamming the American people once, but to get away with it twice is unlikely.
So what you are really saying is that if we turn a couple of these states, ME, NH, PA, MI, WI, MN, CO, NV, and NM we have a chance (as well as take Fl).
Which two should we pick to focus on?
Sorry... go back to school.
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In WI, you cna put that in the strong repub category.
We flipped the Governor, State House, State Senate, one US senate, and 3 US House Seats to Republican. WI is the strongest state in the country flipping dem to repub.
Under the new governor we will get photo id for voting. This will help reduce the rampant democrat cheating in vote fraud that occurs in Milwaukee, Madison, southeast Wisconsin in general, and Green Bay and Lacrosse.
There is also a good chance he will decertify the unions in Wisconsin which will heavily damage their fundraising and political donation abilities.
Hmm..lots of grammar gripers on the board this afternoon.
Anyway, interesting analysis. Thanks for posting it. :-)
I believe your analysis assumes the Republicans put up a mediocre candidate and under that scenario the electoral vote will be close, but the Republicans will squeak out a win.
I have faith the Republicans pull a rabbit out of the hat and put up a candidate that inspires the nation as Reagan did.
Under that scenario Obama will only capture a few of the diehard leftist states.