We’ve made some modifications to the default ‘Swing States’ view on the interactive map based on recent polling. As before, this remains a bit tricky as the polling is surprisingly different in a number of states depending on who the Democratic candidate is. Visit our polling maps, which you can get to off the home page to see the current polls for each prospective November contest.

We have moved Tennessee, Kentucky and North Carolina from Swing to Republican, for an additional 34 likely McCain electoral votes. We have moved Illinois from Swing to Democratic for an additional 21 likely Clinton/Obama electoral votes. We have moved Minnesota and Michigan back into the Swing category as they are polling within the margin of error regardless of whom the Democrats nominate.

These changes don’t affect the overall theme — the November race continues to look very competitive, with a fairly large number of states polling quite closely.