I know supporters of any candidate want to believe that the tension rises, and public interest rises, and everything is really cool for their side ~ and outside of anecdotes, that's not it.
Sorry, if you get something it'll be pretty much in line with what we've had before, and we will have to suppress voting on the other side, as usual, to make sure we win.
BTW, New York, Illinois and California aren't really out of play. You may think they are, but they aren't. Even in those out of the way places we have penetrated their psyche with the internet and all it can do ~ they no longer have any reason to depend on the MSM.
Now, whether they just don't vote, or vote Romney, will of course affect that 10m advantage he had in 08, but if they do the latter, you're looking at a shift of a little over 5 million votes nationally to make an EC landslide. Again, only for purposes of disposing with your "voter registration advantage" model, nine million of your Dem advantage there is soaked up in three states. We do not have to "flip" voters there. Not necessary. You only have to flip voters in the states I mentioned for this to be a 300+ EV for the GOP.