| HappySqurriel said: Well, this appears to be working out (pretty much) as I expected ... Obama is going to win but it also appears that it was far closer than the pollsters were predicting. Looking at the results I would say that it was a pretty big mistake of McCain to focus Pennsylvania and he should have focused on Ohio, Iowa, New Mexico and Colorado. |
Yes, in hindsight that looks correct. But I don't think it's going to be closer than pollsters predicted. (Which pollsters? What did they predict?)
But look at it this way... It looks like Obama could have won w/out FL, OH or MO. Florida has been a swing state so many times. Nobody wins the presidency without Ohio. Democrats are always trying to flip Missouri so that they don't have win Florida or Ohio.
Ignoring Ohio (because it looks like Obama didn't need it), now you're talking about Iowa, New Mexico and Colorado? How did the center of the political map shift like that? Who would think you could win without FL, OH and MO? A crazy thing happened tonight. I think I know what it was but I'm going to ruminate on it for a few months.
Please excuse any hyperbole in the above statements. I'm in a state of shock.
