*** ALL GORE AND KERRY STATES NOW SOLID BLUE!!! ***

[WeDidIt]

Check it out on Electoral-Vote.com. Every last Gore and Kerry State is solidly true blue.
Virginia and Colorado now Weak Dem (light blue).

Ohio, North Carolina, Florida, Missouri, and Nevada now barely Dem.

North Dakota now a tie!

West Virginia, Indiana and Montana now barely GOP.

Georgia is Weak GOP!

IT'S A BEAUTIFUL SIGHT!!!

Obama 364 McCain 171 Ties 3

WOO HOO!!!

:woohoo:

[kansasblue]

1. Montana.... Bearly GOP, North Dakota tied. Sweet.

50 State!

Go Dean

Go Obama!

[VWolf]

2. 264 "strong" electoral votes

Great way to go into the final 2 weeks - now we need a super push for the landslide.

That $150 million's gonna come in handy.

[WeDidIt]

4. If he takes any ONE of the other states, he wins

Seriously, 269 is enough.

McCain has to take them ALL plus take one fo the STRONG DEM states in order to win!

[VWolf]

5. Well, unless that ONE other state is ND

:evilgrin:

[reggie the dog]

21. 269 + Omaha = 270!

[Curtland1015]

3. They should just go ahead and invent some new states so Obama can win those too.

:P

[VWolf]

6. Interesting tidbit

You really only need 11 states to win the election:
CA, TX, NY, FL, IL, PA, OH, MI, NJ, NC, GA gives you 271

Interesting that Obama's ahead in all but two (GA & TX).

[WeDidIt]

7. Yep

And he's making some movement in Georgia, too.

:evilgrin:

[VWolf]

8. I guess hoping for TX to go blue this year

might be a bit too much.

[WeDidIt]

9. Could happen

If the pollster models are way off, you bet it could happen.

[Broken Acorn]

10. Obama losing in FL & OH

WTF???

If he can't lead in those polls leading up to the election, he has no chance once the shenanigans start there during election day :(

[WeDidIt]

12. WTF are you talking about?

Both Florida and Ohio show as Barely Dem on that mapo. They are in his column.

On top of that, if Obama wins Virginia, he doesn't NEED EITHER Florida or Ohio.

[jimlup]

15. Either Virginia or Colorado

Either Virginia or Colorado put Obama over the top. Right now, in a worst case scenario (assuming we hold everything that is now solid blue), he just needs to hold onto VA or CO of the weak dem right now.

[five_horizons]

20. We don't really need FL or OH

In fact I've pretty much accepted that we will probably not win them. I just feel like if it's close, they are going to steal them.

That's OK though. I just don't see any way that we can lose at this point. All we really need are the Kerry states, Iowa and Virginia. And we're comfortably ahead in those all those states, with the exception of maybe VA (up by an average of 6.8 according to RCP). We win those and it's 272-266. And that doesn't include Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico, where we also have pretty good leads.

[tekisui]

14. He doesn't need FL or OH to win.

I would like to see those go Blue, and FL may, but OH is just too screwy.

[Beetwasher]

16. A. He's Ahead In FL and OH, B. He Doesn't Need Them Anyway

So, WTF are you talking about?

[high density]

18. Thankfully OH is not as important as it was in 2004, given Obama's gains elsewhere

I do not understand what the voters are thinking in OH.

[Liberal Dose]

11. How can Nevada be barely Dem? The state has everything RWers hate!

:)

[WeDidIt]

13. But those things bring the one thing RWers love

Money.

[Upton]

17. I don't understand something

if all the Gore states are solid blue, and Gore won 266 electoral votes, plus NH is now solid blue.....why doesn't the site show 270 strong Democrat instead of 264?

[WeDidIt]

19. Shifting demographics altered the electoral college

While California had 54 electoral votes in 2000, it had 55 in 2004 and 2008.

Texas had 32 electoral votes in 2000 but has 34 in 2004 and 2008.

Illinois had 22 in 2000, 21 now.

Florida had 25 and has 27 now.

New York had 33 and has 31 now.

This was a result of the 2000 census.