Reply #23: I'm beginning to agree with you................

[PaDem]

I'm an Obama supporter at this point and I believe he has a much better chance to win the general election than does Clinton. However, they both face some challenges in a general election against McCain when one takes into consideration certain electoral realities.

One thing I think we did in 2004 was to focus too many resources in Florida, and to a lesser degree Ohio. If I were guiding the process, I'd focus less on those two states and more on VA, CO, NM, IA, and MO, making sure to hold Pennsylvania and Michigan. Bill Richardson as VP flips NM and greatly improves our lot with Latinos, which would be huge. I can't think of any other VP canidate who can give us what Richardson does electorally. I also think the above strategy at least in part is dependent on who wins the nomination. Should Hillary win, I'd probably focus intensely on Ohio and less so on say Colorado. It should be interesting, but anyone who says it's going to be a cakewalk is kidding themselves.