Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Here is a great website  for poll watchers.  It's pretty self explanatory: dark and light red are likely  to go for McCain; dark and light blue are likely to go to Obama; yellow ones are  too close to call.  What is interesting, though, is that even if McCain wins all  of the yellow states, Obama still wins.  Can it be true that Obama just has to  play defense through November?  Yes.  But, the light blue states he needs to  hold onto are New Mexico, Iowa, Michigan and Ohio.  Unfortunately, if he loses  Michigan or Ohio, he would have to win another yellow state.  That means  Florida, Colorado, Virginia, Nevada, Missouri, Indiana, Montana and North Dakota  are in play.  If he wins FL, he's golden.  But right now, McCain is ahead in the  polls there.  Obama is polling slightly ahead in Colorado, Virginia and Montana  right now, so those are probably the state where he should focus his resources.   Really, though, winning Montana's 3 electoral votes cannot make up for a loss in  Michigan and/or Ohio, so really Colorado and Virginia would be the states to  watch.
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