[Husker24]

I dont know if any Republican will ever be a shoe in. Just look at the electoral map. Republicans will never win California....period and probably not New York. Florida could be iffy in the future especially if Castro falls and all those Cubans switch partys (which ill bet they do if they dont go back to Cuba). With all those states in the Democratic camp, I dont think its possible to win, we need at least one more big state other than Texas.

[Sonny M]

Florida could be iffy in the future especially if Castro falls and all those Cubans switch partys (which ill bet they do if they dont go back to Cuba).

Not likely, the cubans are the pariahs of the hispanic community. They don't fit in with the rest, including mexicans. In Miami, cubans are very successfull, and on average, tend to do better then whites there. Since many of them do not like marxism, they do not tend to support most government programs (Liberals despise them for this, calling them paranoid), and are more social conservative (especially the older cubans). They are the demographic that has used the republican party to achieve 2 things, both political and economic empowerment (Blacks chose political, asians chose economic). They are an anomoly with minorites and hispanics especially. There is little or no chance of them crossing over. The guys at DU hate them, with open vengence, as so many liberals, and the democratic party in the US has been openly hostile to them.

[PeoplesRep_of_LA]

CA is in play. If you break down California's map by county you'll see that political novice Bill Simon won almost every single county-except for San Fran and LA.

People are very upset with the Gov, this state is not the liberal bastion everyone else thinks it is.

[republicanwizard]

My very own Pennsylvania and Ohio need to become GOP locks. The combined weight of our 41 electoral votes is enough, combined with a GOP lock in Texas and Florida, to keep RATS out of the White House.