latimes.com - 8/24/2008
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Right now, Barack Obama is favored over John McCain in the race to secure the 270 electoral votes required to claim the White House. But when you listen to the tough-talking senior aides running his campaign, you realize that Obama wants something more than just a victory. That could be his undoing. George W. Bush won the White House with 271 electoral votes in 2000 and 286 in 2004, barely ...
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THE ELECTORAL MAP TELLS US WHO MCCAIN WILL PICK
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS —
HELPERIN/LATIMES: ... the most vital targets for Obama are much the same as they were for his party in 2000 and 2004: Pennsylvania, Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nevada and a handful of smaller states. Gore and Kerry both won their share of these battlegrounds, but not enough. Obama's safest bet is to make sure he holds the battleground states Kerry won and then pick up enough of the others to get his 270. At this point, even matching Kerry in the battleground states is not a sure thing -- Michigan, for example, is being fiercely ...
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Daily Kos —
... with of why he's doomed, but trust me, I'm never wrong. And lest you think Morris is the most asinine pundit pretending to be objective today's Ron Fournier Award Winner out there, we have a double from the champ. Start with a TPM vidclip from This Week with George Stephanopolous, wherein Mark Halperin stuns his co-pundits with the claim that the McCain housing gaffe is great news... for McCain. Mark Halperin: The 50 state strategy? If McCain pulls off a victory in ...
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From NBC/NJ's Athena Jones EAU CLAIRE, WI -- Obama told a crowd of supporters at a BBQ here today that the Democratic convention, which begins tomorrow in Denver, would show that he is just like them and understands their concerns.
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