The American presidential election (47)
The American presidential election is all about the electoral college and the winning or losing of each state – rather than about the overall popular vote (as Al Gore demonstrated four years ago).
There’s still four months to go in the election, but a state by state analysis suggests that, as of now, it’s looking good for Obama – see this site where you can create your own map and the situation as calculated on the CNN site.
Of course, a lot could happen in the next few months and the election could still be very close, but then again Obama could win very decisively (which is what I am expecting and hoping).
July 5th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
This makes for interesting viewing:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/07/a_look_at_the_presidential_can.html
It’s from the excellent Big Picture website:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/
July 5th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Roger,
I wish I could be as confident as you. This election will be very close.
In June 00 and 04 both Gore and Kerry were polling well ahead of their rivals, and we know the results of those.
I like http://www.electoral-vote.com/ for daily updates. Have you visited there before?
Chris
July 6th, 2008 at 9:31 am
Thanks, Dave and Chris – two excellent tips.