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A First Look at the Electoral Map
Ohio Politics ^ | May 27,2008 | Ben Keeler

Posted on 05/27/2008 4:07:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 05/27/2008 4:07:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama......God help us all


2 posted on 05/27/2008 4:13:35 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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I know that we are getting closer to a national election because I am starting to wake up sometimes in the middle of the night thinking about the path to 270 and the White House through the Electoral College.

I know that we were getting closer, because I wake up thinking about the 90 Senate and about 375 Congressional votes McCain will have for any leftist/globalist legislation he wants to pass.
3 posted on 05/27/2008 4:14:30 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (If you continue to hold your nose and vote, your nation will stink worse after every election.)
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Great first draft!

Only question: why do you put Kansas in safe Republican?

Obama has some ties there that might cause it to shift Democrat this election ... just for pork's sake.

4 posted on 05/27/2008 4:16:12 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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Put Colorado in the marxist column. Sen. Allard is retiring.
The dem-o-rat is a long term congressman. The ‘pub is ok, but I get the impression he is squishy.


5 posted on 05/27/2008 4:16:13 PM PDT by dynachrome ("Socialism is the feudalism of the future.")
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Good work ..........Thanks for that effort !


6 posted on 05/27/2008 4:17:06 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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"I know that we were getting closer, because I wake up thinking about the 90 Senate and about 375 Congressional votes McCain will have for any leftist/globalist legislation he wants to pass."

Yeah, unlike that rock-ribbed conservative Barack Hussein Muhammad Obama, who's a regular Ronald reagan clone, right? Life sometimes hands you two sh*tty choices. See my tagline...

7 posted on 05/27/2008 4:17:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary or Obama can!)
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Most people in Wisconsin strongly dislike the Bears and anything to do with Chicago.

Despite the fraud, McCain wins Wisconsin by 3%!


8 posted on 05/27/2008 4:17:40 PM PDT by proudpapa (McCain-Pawlenty '08)
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I didn’t write this, I just posted the thread...


9 posted on 05/27/2008 4:18:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary or Obama can!)
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This is like predicting the weather 5 months in advance. What we need is a neutered president no matter who wins. This can only be accomplished by splitting the houses among both parties. I move we start a grassroots movement to take back the house with real conservatives instead of RINOS.


10 posted on 05/27/2008 4:18:38 PM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: DoughtyOne

Seems like it would have been a lot easier to nominate a conservative than to grovel for socialists and marxist leftovers from ClintBama.


11 posted on 05/27/2008 4:22:05 PM PDT by cripplecreek (I miss the days when only the politicians were unethical.)
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It's too early to agonize over this. However, the red/blue thing needs clarifying again, evidently. Here goes:

Up until 1976, color assignment was random, with both parties seeking to avoid the "red". In that year, all of the television networks agreed that they'd avoid any implication of favoritism in color selections (Hah!). The color of the incumbent party, initially set as blue for Gerald Ford’s Republican ticket in that year, would flip every four years. Consequently, a successful challenger runs again in four years, as the incumbent, under the same color. So in 1992, the challenger Clinton was red on the maps, and in 1996, incumbent Clinton was also red. Challenger Bush, red in 2000, was red again as an incumbent in 2004. That formula dictates that the Republicans should be carrying the blue flag this time around (and with Obama's retro-Soviet campaign posters, never have the Dems more deserved to be Red).

It will be interesting to see how the networks color their maps. Gentlemen, place your bets.

12 posted on 05/27/2008 4:25:25 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Liberals are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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I may be wrong as I can be, but I have come to the place that I will no longer vote for a man who is diametrically opposed to what I stand for, just to prevent someone worse from being elected.

This year it seems that if Caligula(R) and Satan(D) were running, many Republicans would claim Caligula(R) would be the clear guy to vote for.

If we refuse to take a stand, we will stand for nothing.

I don’t know what the answer is, but if voting for a man like McCain is the best we can do, then it’s already over.


13 posted on 05/27/2008 4:25:34 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (If you continue to hold your nose and vote, your nation will stink worse after every election.)
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Some of the NJ polls seem to indicate it could be up for grabs. If a local issue that favors the GOP emerges McCain could win there.


14 posted on 05/27/2008 4:29:16 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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McCain will procede to carry out about 70% of what Obama would. Obama would be opposed by about 42 Senators and 175 House members. McCain will be opposed by about 10 Senators and about 50 House members.

Half of the Republican party will support anything McCain does. Nearly all Congressional Republicans will. 100% of the Republicans would oppose anything Obama wanted to do. Nearly 100% of the Congressional Republicans would also.

The RNC will support anything McCain does.

The RNC would oppose everything Obama will do.

I’m not going to back McCain’s one party rule.


15 posted on 05/27/2008 4:31:41 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (If you continue to hold your nose and vote, your nation will stink worse after every election.)
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New Hampshire.....Bush is as popular as a mortician there.

Hmmmmmm........ That could be good news. A mortician who owns one of the funeral homes in our town of 20,000 just won an unprecedented 4th Term as Mayor.
16 posted on 05/27/2008 4:32:28 PM PDT by no dems (90% of Blacks vote for the only Black candidate; isn't that racist?)
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We got plenty of giggles at John Kerry voters voting for Kerry because they disliked Bush more. That didn’t work out too well for them.


17 posted on 05/27/2008 4:33:20 PM PDT by cripplecreek (I miss the days when only the politicians were unethical.)
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And, without Bobby Jindal on the ticket in the VEEP spot, Louisiana could go Dem this year.


18 posted on 05/27/2008 4:33:39 PM PDT by no dems (90% of Blacks vote for the only Black candidate; isn't that racist?)
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An article called "A First Look at the Electoral Map" ought to include maps (and maybe a few graphs).

No, not because we don't know where all 57 states are.

But because it makes it easier to visualize the situation and to grasp what's important at a glance.

19 posted on 05/27/2008 4:34:21 PM PDT by x
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"Some of the NJ polls seem to indicate it could be up for grabs. If a local issue that favors the GOP emerges McCain could win there."

Every year someone finds a ray of hope for Republicans in NJ and California and every year they go solidly Democrat.

If McCain hopes to win with a low-budget campaign then he should only go to states like NJ and California on combination fundraising/photo-op tours.

Anyone who tries to convince him to spend significant amounts of money for TV ad buys in NJ or California should be summarily fired.

20 posted on 05/27/2008 4:35:15 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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