“...Romney is an outlier....” - only if you choose to warp the meaning.
“Reading my mind” is against the rules here - shame, shame.
I didn’t realize that asking a very simple, very easy question was so fraught with deeper meaning - I asked the question because I was interested in the answer; or, at least, I thought I did. Maybe a visit to the shrink is in order.
No...it's historically factual that (R) POTUS candidates have been quite numerically distant from (D) POTUS candidates in given states.
Secondly, poll-wise, that historically factual data has been reinforced as not changing in this 2012 race.
So you're now claiming that Romney isn't numerically distant in all/most/many of these states? Really? And even if we can't agree upon which states are in that category, you've already conceded OR & CA to Obama.
That concession can only be done with an obvious realization that Romney has far too much ground to make up in those states. Hence, Romney is numerically distant -- and has ZERO chance of winning those states.
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