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Old 11-08-2012, 12:10 PM   #530 (permalink)
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For the first time today, I saw a UK newspaper from Monday that had a map of how the voting was expected to go in each state. Romney had like 80% of these states with Obama the rest. I thought what, how can Obama win!!! Then I saw it was done by seats (or whatever you call it there) and states like California, New York and Illinois had a huge amount of these seats (California 55 I think) compared to say states like Montana (3 I think). Which leads me to think, that the key is to win in the really big states in terms of population and power and add a few others etc and you're guaranteed victory. Is the Presidential race as easy as I just described or not?
The key is to win the bigger swing states like Florida and Ohio because the states with the largest numbers of electoral votes tend to lean heavily toward one party or the other (i.e. California is pretty reliably Democrat, Texas is pretty reliably Republican).
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