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How President Obama gets to 270
The Washington Post ^ | 14 Dec 2011 | Chris Cillizza and Aaron Blake

Posted on 12/14/2011 3:47:21 PM PST by mandaladon

On Tuesday morning, the braintrust of President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign gathered a select handful of reporters to make a simple case: the incumbent has a number of different paths — five, to be exact — he can follow to win the 270 electoral votes necessary to secure a second term. Since we’ve spent lots and lots of time breaking down the electoral map — and making the case that Obama is stronger than his job approval ratings indicate — we thought it might be fun to look at each of the paths laid out by his team to see how likely each might be.

We do that below. One important point before we start: The Obama team used as its baseline for each of these five scenarios the 246 electoral votes that Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry (D) won in his 2004 loss to President George W. Bush. That means that Obama could lose none of the states he and Kerry carried in 2004 and 2008 — including swing states like New Hampshire and Wisconsin — and have the numbers add up. The paths are ranked from most likely to least likely for Obama.

1. Florida path: If Obama wins the 29 electoral votes in Florida, he’s at 275 and a winner. Florida moved hard to Republicans in 2010 — the party elected Gov. Rick Scott and Sen. Marco Rubio — but there are signs that the Sunshine State electorate is trending back to the ideological middle. Scott is among the least popular governors in the country, which won’t help the eventual GOP presidential nominee, and Florida has a large Hispanic community that should vote overwhelmingly for Obama.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona; US: Colorado; US: Florida; US: Iowa; US: Nevada; US: New Hampshire; US: New Mexico; US: North Carolina; US: Ohio; US: South Carolina; US: Virginia; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: arizona; colorado; elections; florida; iowa; nevada; newhampshire; newmexico; northcarolina; obama; ohio; southcarolina; virginia; wisconsin
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To: mandaladon

Trouble is, all the paths lead through Fantasy Land.


21 posted on 12/14/2011 4:39:18 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: mandaladon
the incumbent has a number of different paths — five, to be exact

Just like the Five Pillars of Islam.

If we overthrow The Kenyan Muslim, there will be riots in the streets comparable to the Rodney King riots.

22 posted on 12/14/2011 4:41:29 PM PST by Old Sarge (RIP FReeper Skyraider (1930-2011) - You Are Missed)
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To: mandaladon

I can’t find any link now and their link is not working but here is the story of what I posted to you

http://www.wcpo.com/dpp/news/local_news/investigations/If-You-Could-Vote-Twice%2C-Would-You

http://www.wsbtv.com/video/17878347/index.html


23 posted on 12/14/2011 4:44:45 PM PST by manc (Marriage is between one man and one woman.Trolls get a life, I HATE OUR BIAS LIBERAL MEDIA.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

need to stop crap like this as there is no way he won my state, even when all amendments went right wing .

Mccain won the state on the night 53% to 47% but all their cheating and voting more than once changed it .

http://www.ourtown.com/snellvillega/article/2008/11/4/some-georgians-suspected-of-voting-twice.html

http://www.wcpo.com/dpp/news/local_news/investigations/If-You-Could-Vote-Twice%2C-Would-You

obama cheated Hillary and the country .

Now it comes out that some in NC voted more than once, he should not have been on the roles in IN and no way did he win my state.


24 posted on 12/14/2011 4:48:13 PM PST by manc (Marriage is between one man and one woman.Trolls get a life, I HATE OUR BIAS LIBERAL MEDIA.)
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To: Old Sarge
If we overthrow The Kenyan Muslim, there will be riots in the streets comparable to the Rodney King riots

If it is to be, then be prepared. A famous man once said "if there be trouble,, let it be in my time that my children and grandchildren live in peace" I'm sick of the "do nothings" threats,,, let em bring it on

25 posted on 12/14/2011 4:53:26 PM PST by vinylsidingman
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To: mandaladon

“How President Obama gets to 270.”

Simple: Don’t back Newt for the nomination. Romney wins and goes on to be defeated by Obama.

GO NEWT GO........


26 posted on 12/14/2011 4:56:09 PM PST by Gator113 (~Just livin' life, my way~.. Newt/Palin-West-2012."got a lot swirling around in my head.")
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To: jakerobins
Jim Beam Devils cut Bourbon

How is that stuff?

(Is it just 90 proof Beam or does it have more character?)

ML/NJ

27 posted on 12/14/2011 5:01:29 PM PST by ml/nj
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To: mandaladon

zer0 is one and done


28 posted on 12/14/2011 5:31:47 PM PST by reefdiver ("Let His day's be few And another takes His office")
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

So at best they have him at 275. So if he loses even one medium or large state that he and Kerry won, he’s toast.


29 posted on 12/14/2011 5:38:48 PM PST by scrabblehack
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To: mo
this is gonna lead to civil war

Why reach for Jim Beam when there's a perfectly good 30.06 within reach? A plurality of our folks would surely have sold their votes to Fat George, right after Lexington and Concord.

And there's plenty who thought such as what happened following the election of Lincoln would be over and done in a week or two.

Won't be no standing army, just long, slogging protracted and determined resistance.

The Rule of Law, not men, and a Constitutional Republic, or no deal.

30 posted on 12/14/2011 5:57:15 PM PST by Prospero
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To: ml/nj

Pretty Good Stuff Strong but has more flavor......Still nice! Gonna get a nice Cigar for that night as well if the Republicans pull the election off......


31 posted on 12/14/2011 6:12:57 PM PST by jakerobins
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To: mandaladon
I believe it is highly probable that he will win.

After the Repub primaries, who ever the nominee is, there will have been so much blood letting and hatred between the Conservatives and RINO’s that one or the other will sit out the election.

I also believe that the Dems will get the House back as well as hold the Senate.

This primary season is the worst I have ever seen ... and not one vote has been cast yet.

32 posted on 12/14/2011 6:23:46 PM PST by CapnJack
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To: CapnJack

Please don’t flame me - but talking to many others - not die hards like us - our best bets are Romney, huntsman , and Paul.


33 posted on 12/14/2011 6:27:31 PM PST by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: boomop1

Now that there should have had a drink warning !!!!!!! My keyboard nearly got drowned by Pepsi ~


34 posted on 12/14/2011 6:29:12 PM PST by simplesimon (You are entitled to your own opinions but not your own "facts"...........)
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To: mandaladon; All
If these folks get their way, 270 will be beside the point:

National Popular Vote -- Electoral college reform by direct election of the President

Insidious!

35 posted on 12/14/2011 6:31:47 PM PST by upchuck (Let's have the Revolution NOW before we get dumbed down to the point that we can't.)
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To: mandaladon
...the ideological middle.

The ideological middle, my a@@. The Washington Post thinks that only Democrats represent that mysterious ideological middle. They have no idea of what the hell they're talking about.

36 posted on 12/14/2011 6:34:55 PM PST by OldPossum
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To: mandaladon

270?

He plays the entire back 9 and uses no mulligans.


37 posted on 12/14/2011 6:39:15 PM PST by Andyman (The truth shall make you FReep.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks mandaladon.
...the braintrust of President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign gathered a select handful of reporters...
Their names?


38 posted on 12/14/2011 7:21:34 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Merry Christmas, Happy New Year! May 2013 be even Happier!)
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To: mandaladon
How President Obama gets to 270...

...He gains 120 lbs.

39 posted on 12/15/2011 1:20:48 PM PST by SuperSonic (When news breaks, we fix it! - FreeRepublic.com)
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