The Associated Press has called North Carolina for Obama.  We’ve updated the home page map to reflect this.   The last time it voted for a Democrat was Carter in 1976.  Missouri remains too close to call, awaiting the count of 7,100 provisional ballots.  It is believed McCain has a slight edge there.  If he wins, [...]

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Just playing around with the map today and speculating how it could turn out if the voters ultimately decide to go in a different direction this year.    These six ‘red’ states, while obviously not decisive to the race if it were to play out this way, could end up being the closest in popular [...]

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Based on recent polls, and the increased likelihood of an Obama vs. McCain race, we’ve moved North Carolina from Republican to Swing and Arkansas from Swing to Republican.   The latter decision was fairly easy — the only way Arkansas is really in play is if Sen. Clinton is the nominee.  
North Carolina, Virginia and even South [...]

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