Posted October 18, 2008 9:00 AM
The numbers of toss-up states are dwindling.
by Mark Silva
Karl Rove's electoral map is growing bluer.
With the number of states still considered "toss-ups'' dwindling in state polls, and states such as Florida and Virginia and Colorado swinging in Barack Obama's direction, the architect of President Bush's elections sees rough sledding for his party's nominee.
"Only four states with a combined 51 electoral votes remain as toss-ups,'' Rove reports, "while Obama continues to lead with 313 electoral votes to McCain's 174 votes.''
It takes 270 to win.
Comments
Now McCain knows how Bll&Hill felt back in April.
Between Barack & a hard place.
Posted by: ornery | October 18, 2008 9:36 AM
Now McCain knows how Bll&Hill felt back in April.
Between Barack & a hard place.
Posted by: ornery | October 18, 2008 9:36 AM
What a great story to start the day.
Posted by: Doug Hussein Zook | October 18, 2008 10:04 AM
I smell mandate!
Posted by: C.Hussein.Morris | October 18, 2008 11:53 AM
I saw Chuck Todd yesterday and he had them tied...Where does Rove get his numbers?
Posted by: lochnessmonster | October 18, 2008 2:20 PM
I'm voting early. The libs are scary all the time.
Posted by: Lulu Zoe West | October 18, 2008 5:08 PM
Amazing, now all you libs think Karl Rove is a genius.
Something interesting though, Illinois is +17% in favor of Obama (I would think it would be much larger, but that is a different story) and Pennsylvania is +13% - basically in the bag. Obama bin Biden seems to be spending a lot of time and money in Penn when statistically it seems locked up. I think there is something with the polling data and it goes back to the all the cross-over people voting in the dem primaries after McCain locked up the GOP. The polling companies will try to reflect the registered voter %'s and thus may be over polling democratic voters.
Posted by: Terry | October 19, 2008 8:05 AM
I wouldn't trust Rover any further than I could throw him.
His dilemma must be: what types of disinformatino to put out there.
Should he "lull Dems into a false sense of security"?
Or tweak McC's figures upward to do a little CPR on moribund Republicans?
Hard to do both at the same time, isn't it, Karlito?
Yes, McCain could still win.
It would take a lot of those robo calls and a lot of well placed cash.
Perhaps the odd bomb on the Red Line.
But McC could pull it off.
Which is why Obama is out there talking to those piddly little groups of 100,000 stragglers every day.
He has to work 3 times as hard to prove he is McC's "equal".
Posted by: ornery | October 19, 2008 12:22 PM