[mngran2]

Prior weeks' maps at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2053333/posts

[Artemis Webb]

For all the talk on other threads of positive movement I would dearly love to see some positive movement.

[Slapshot68]

Wow, my state of Maryland is firmly in the Obama camp. Who’d a thunk that?

/s off

[FreeAtlanta]

Well, it is obvious from your maps that the North East and California have a ton of morons.

[Always Right]

I am not buying Obama winning in Ohio, and PA, MI, and WI will be closer than 5%.

[peggybac]

I read why the maps look so strange, but I forgot.

[comebacknewt]

Very soon, we should see Virginia flip to McCain. Montana should have already flipped.

That leaves Colorado and Ohio as the two battleground states that McCain absolutely must win. Polls in those states are mixed, but McCain has been ahead in some of them in both states recently.

McCain is well within striking distance. He just needs a signature issue to put him over the top by giving people a compelling reason to vote FOR him.

Energy seems the most likely, but he is still struggling to fully grasp it and make it his own.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

In reality, a few cities (New York, Chicago, LA, San Francisco) have a huge effect on presidential elections. California, Illinois, and New York combined represent 107 electoral votes, and with winner take all those electoral votes are really a representation of what the cities in those states vote. The real demographic split in our country is not state to state, but city vs. non-city. Flip just one state, California, to the McCain column and he is ahead in electoral votes. Not going to happen, but important to realize.