Battleground snapshot: Romney gains in the South

[Locutus]

from Daily Kos:

The bulk of this polling is pre-second debate, and points to further deterioration this week in the southern battlegrounds of Florida, North Carolina and Virginia. Note that Rasmussen is single-handedly boosting Mitt Romney's numbers in most of these states. Take Ras out in Virginia, and President Barack Obama leads by 0.6 points in the composite. Take Ras out of Florida, and Romney's lead is a less gaudy 2.6 points. Take Rasmussen and that crappy Gravis outfit out of Ohio, and it's Obama up by 2.3 points. And so on.

But I'm including the sh!!ty Republican pollsters to give us a worst-case scenario look at the electoral picture. And even with them included, Obama leads 286-252 in the electoral college—not the gaudy 300+ EVs lead he once enjoyed, but still a lead.

It took 7-10 days before we saw the full impact of the first debate, so these numbers represent a sort of baseline for what the race looked like before the second debate. Now we wait and see if Obama was able to reclaim lost territory. And, of course, we GOTV.


Daily Kos: Battleground snapshot: Romney gains in the South

 

[B00Mer]

Romney gains in the South... really? I would never have guessed.

Let's see Confederate states, Union states..

Confederacy and Republican Red States | NowPublic News Coverage

 

[Goober]

Romney gains in the South... really? I would never have guessed.

Let's see Confederate states, Union states..

Confederacy and Republican Red States | NowPublic News Coverage

Electoral College Math: North Carolina, Ohio, Other States in Play | Swampland | TIME.com

For months, Mitt Romney’s campaign has expressed confidence in its ability to restore North Carolina to the Republican column in November. The boast isn’t just bluster. With five consecutive polls showing Romney ahead by an average of 5.6 points in North Carolina — which Barack Obama carried by 14,000 votes in 2008 — the Romney campaign on Thursday signaled it would begin redeploying resources to tighter battlegrounds. On the day early voting kicked off in the Tar Heel State, RealClearPolitics (RCP) shifted the state from toss-up status to “lean Romney.”

One can question whether such confidence is misplaced, but the shift is a sign we have entered a new phase of the campaign, marked by a final sprint around a shrinking battlefield. Since the start of the general election, and even amid the jagged vicissitudes of the past six weeks, the electoral map has been remarkably static. Romney and Obama have spent the vast majority of their time and money in just nine states: Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin. From time to time, polls have given rise to rumors that another state (Pennsylvania, Michigan or Arizona, for example) might come into play, but it doesn’t look that way. Now, if North Carolina is sliding to Romney’s column — a judgment the Obama campaign disputes — we are down to eight.

(INTERACTIVE: 2012 Electoral College Calculator Map)

In fact, the number of states up for grabs is probably even smaller. And while Romney has a narrow but steady lead in the polls, Obama boasts the advantage in the Electoral College math. Romney’s problem is that he has fewer pathways to 270 electoral votes. As National Journal‘s Major Garrett explains:

Romney, according to RCP, has 191 electoral votes. If you add Florida (29), North Carolina (15), and Virginia (13), that brings his total to 248 electoral votes. Add Colorado (9) — which neither campaign is prepared to claim or concede — and Romney’s total rises to 257 electoral votes. If Romney wins Ohio (18) in addition to these states, he would have 275 electoral votes. If Romney loses Ohio, he would need to win Iowa, Nevada, and New Hampshire to reach 273 electoral votes. There is a scenario where Romney could lose Ohio and New Hampshire but win Iowa and Nevada and one electoral vote from the 2nd Congressional District in Maine (the state allocates electoral votes by district vote) and capture the bare minimum of 270 electoral votes.

 

[tay]

If a white guy can't win the South over a bro then Hell will surely be frozen..............

 

[JLM]

Electoral College Math: North Carolina, Ohio, Other States in Play | Swampland | TIME.com


Romney, according to RCP, has 191 electoral votes. If you add Florida (29), North Carolina (15), and Virginia (13), that brings his total to 248 electoral votes. Add Colorado (9) — which neither campaign is prepared to claim or concede — and Romney’s total rises to 257 electoral votes. If Romney wins Ohio (18) in addition to these states, he would have 275 electoral votes. If Romney loses Ohio, he would need to win Iowa, Nevada, and New Hampshire to reach 273 electoral votes. There is a scenario where Romney could lose Ohio and New Hampshire but win Iowa and Nevada and one electoral vote from the 2nd Congressional District in Maine (the state allocates electoral votes by district vote) and capture the bare minimum of 270 electoral votes.

If, if,if....................Romney might win Utah! :lol: