Why is John McCain Mr. Grump? Due to the Changing Electoral College Dynamic

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http://www.politicalcortex.com/story/2008/9/28/175322/474
By Bill Hare
09/28/2008 05:53:22 PM EST

So Republicans reconciled themselves that, even if California constituted a current problem and a thorny one since it is the nation's most populous state and hence the biggest prize in the electoral college pot, they were after all at the top of the hill in the region as a whole, save those "lefties" in Oregon and Washington, that the Limbaugh-O'Reilly crowd sought to depict as aberrations that had not seen the neocon light.

Now along come Colorado and neighboring New Mexico, in addition to Nevada. These states have seen significant population increases. Those increases have been strategic, cutting in the Democrats' favor as educated high tech, Internet savvy voters who see intelligent application of government as a plus rather than the curse that neocons see it flexing increasing muscle.

The same phenomenon that has made western states that the Republicans once saw as reliable, or reasonably so, occurred in North Carolina and Virginia. These changes have been particularly pronounced in Charlotte, North Carolina and in the suburbs of Northern Virginia adjacent to Washington, D.C.