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8 pm: Florida, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire

Erika Johnsen — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 00:31:48 +0000

Second wave.

Of the eighteen states with polling stations closing within the 8 — 8:59 PM Eastern window, the three we’re concerned about, of course, are Florida (29), Pennsylvania (20), and New Hampshire (4). As Allahpundit summed up in his handy-dandy Electoral Math Made Easy primer yesterday, winning Florida is basically a prerequisite for the Romney campaign; [...]

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Gillespie: Hate to break it to you, Team O, but the map has expanded

Erika Johnsen — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 00:31:06 +0000

Bazinga.

Earlier this week, certain Team Obama members and loyalists insisted that Team Romney’s relatively late-in-the-game push into some new battlegrounds definitively means that Team R has at last figured out that they cannot win with the electoral map they originally planned, characterizing their movements as “desperate” and “flailing” to mark off some more territory. Obama [...]

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DWS: “President Obama is going to win Florida”

Erika Johnsen — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 22:41:52 +0000

Chin up.

Echoing Obama campaign manager Jim Messina‘s tone yesterday, DNC Chairwoman and Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz was all confidence on MSNBC last night, poo-pooing the idea that Team Romney and conservative groups’ efforts could realistically expand the map at this point. I’m sure that they’re going to go swimming in the kitchen sink at this [...]

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Obama hits Romney on auto bailouts in first Michigan ad

Erika Johnsen — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 17:21:47 +0000

The obvious choice.

What Team Obama thinks will work in manufacturing-heavy Ohio will surely work just as well for the actual seat of the auto industry, the thinking likely goes. Their first ad there is a Michigan-tailored variation on their “Mitt Romney would’ve let the auto industry eat cake; see, he said so himself in 2008″ theme — [...]

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Messina: Our map is set, unlike that flailing Team Romney

Erika Johnsen — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:21:12 +0000

Expanding the map, flailing; tomato, tomahto.

The wave of post-debate momentum that has erased and even reversed the leads that President Obama once had in both national and swing-state battles is still going strong, and with a hefty bit more cash on hand than the Democratic camp and only six days left until the election, they’ve got plenty of spending left [...]

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Report: Obama campaign turning grim on Florida, Virginia, North Carolina — and Colorado?

Allahpundit — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:24:04 +0000

Sweat.

You need to read way, way, way down into this National Journal piece to find the key bit, but it’s worth it. Says Jay Cost, “I’ve never seen anybody bury a lede like Major Garrett here.” Let’s bring this treasure chest up to the surface: What also became clear after the dust began to settle [...]

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Karl Rove’s first 2012 electoral map: Including “leaners,” Obama 284, Romney 172, toss-up 82

Allahpundit — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:41:59 +0000

Doom.

Via Dave Weigel. For a compulsive eeyore like me, if the daily polls showing O ahead are like a shot of whiskey, this is like a shot of heroin. Eyes rolling back in my head. Dude, I’m nervous. On the one hand, how seriously should we take a projection that has South Carolina as a [...]

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