[Founding Father]

FF, none of those should be battle ground states, they should be safely blue.

Did I not say they were second tier battleground states. I didn't make a single assumption. I stated facts.

[MNJohnnie]

No you keep stating them as battle ground states. NONE of them have a tradition of voting GOP in Presidential elections. All of them should be in the “likely Obama” column. Those are traditional blue states, not “2nd tier battle ground states”.