I agree 100% with what you wrote. But I think that I’m a bit more optimistic about VA, FL and OH than you are, and believe that Obama has to thread the needle very carefully in order to eke out a narrow victory in the Electoral College: basically, Obama has to run the table, winning every remaining state in order to keep the Republican nominee below 270. If states like WI, PA and MI fall our way, it will be a comfortable, 320+ EV win for the Republican nominee, but if they don’t, and the Interior Western states of NV, NM and CO stay Democrat (which, if I had to place odds today, I would say is more likely than not), it will all boil down to New Hampshire and its 4 EVs.
Indeed. btw the libs hate, hate, HATE the electoral college. I was going to try to find an article i’d seen on alter-net
about how, yay, lib talk radio was back in D.C. with a small AM station; apparently it was totally missing from the
dial. (Um, what about NPR? Powerful FM stations, with taxpayer funding). Anyway on the main page a big headline along the lines of “why the Right loves the electoral college”
(i.e., America should strictly do a popular vote. Care to guess why?) I didn’t read the article, but just saying....