If Romney loses Ohio...

[Chichiri]

Then he must win Florida.

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... and Virginia.

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... and North Carolina.

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... and Iowa.

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... and Wisconsin.

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... and Colorado.

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... and Nevada.

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... to get to 268 electoral votes, and lose by only two.

Suck it, Republicans.

[hrmjustin]

1. If he looses OH he will loose IA and WI. so he will never make it up. He can not give up on OH.

FL is not gone for him, but if he is loosing in OH and behind in FL than he has to do some work. However he is not even fighting in FL that much.

[progressoid]

4. I think he'll lose IA.

Most polls have Obama ahead here. Barring some great shift in the universe, Obama wins IA.

[hrmjustin]

5. With those early voters I agree with you.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. I love how you stack up the states he MUST win!

It looks like dominoes.

[RandySF]

3. He won't win Nevada or Colorado.

It's no secret here in the West that those two states are probably off the table. Chuck Todd even quoted a pollster who called Nevada demographically impossible. Romney HAS to win some combination of OH, IA and WI to have a prayer.

[hrmjustin]

6. agreed my friend.

[pasto76]

13. I bet a dollar Obama wins Colorado

while this is a home state for a lot of whack jobs, the economy has sucked ass for too long, and a lot more people are wise as to who is responsible. 4 years ago, there were McCain signs everywhere. Now I notice when I see a romney sign, because they are few and far between.

[JTG of the PRB]

17. Exactly!

I've noticed that too! The rMoney signs (and bumper stickers) really stand out because there's almost none of them around!

[AndyTiedye]

7. There is Only One Way the Repigs Can "Win"

They have to steal Ohio, Florida, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.

[Cali_Democrat]

8. Ain't that something?

Don't tell the media though. Apparently this race is still a dead heat!

[SunSeeker]

9. K&R

[Jennicut]

10. The electoral map is not his friend.

There is a reason no Repub has won the Presidency without Ohio. Especially true in the 90's and 2000's.

[Aldo Leopold]

11. I just don't see him winning Ohio.

No way.

No how.

Not a chance.

So you're right. They can suck it.

[nilram]

12. I thought they owned all the voting machines in Ohio.

Just the sound of me worrying...

[femrap]

14. !!!!

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[Spitfire of ATJ]

15. Election night 2008 coverage...

Note the way they report Ohio.

At that point I said, "It's over."

[Drunken Irishman]

19. I did too...it was a great moment.

We were having an election party at my mom's (we expect to have one again this November) and I was in the kitchen flipping through the TV. I came across FOX, and noticed Ohio was blue, but then realized it was just to show how tough Romney's path to victory would be without Ohio. Rove was discussing it, actually, on a big map and then they flipped Ohio back to toss-up and I was disappointed. But at that point, with Rove right there, FOX announced Obama had won it. I let out a huge scream ... "HE WON OHIO!" and the rest is history.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

20. I still can't believe he won Indiana.

When I lived in Michigan we used to laugh at how the farmers there were refusing to honor Daylight Saving Time.

[Gal Friday]

21. I have searched in vain for the FOX coverage of that night

I wanted to see those bastards choke on their own shit.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

22. Someone read your post.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101762738

Do you know how everyone said, "Hope and Change"?

We need to remember what we had before Obama:

(note the view count)

[johnlucas]

24. MSNBC's 2008 coverage was beautiful. I love that music

Man when the West Coast came in it was OVAH!!
California, Oregon, Washington, & Hawaii with the cherry on top.

Gonna miss Keith Olbermann being there for 2012.
John Lucas

[Spitfire of ATJ]

29. He got choked up making that announcement.

[Hamlette]

16. He's gonna win PA

Oh so he says.

Like Bush said he'd win CA.

[Drunken Irishman]

18. Didn't McCain say he was going to win PA too in '08?

[TroyD]

23. What's the true story on Ohio voting numbers?

I keep seeing reports online that Ohio voter registration this year is down among Democrats.

[babylonsister]

25. Many GOP Operatives Conceding Ohio

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/09/29/many_gop_operatives_conceding_ohio.html

September 29, 2012

Many GOP Operatives Conceding Ohio

Walter Shapiro: "Many of the well-known Ohio Republicans I interviewed offered their blunt assessments only after they were guaranteed complete anonymity. That is often the Faustian bargain of political journalism in 2012: robotic talking points on the record or something resembling honesty with no names attached. The reason, though, that I am emphasizing the don't-quote-me part of the equation is that I was stunned by the vehemence of the thumbs-down-on-Mitt verdict. All but conceding the state to Obama, these Republicans were offering what may be the biggest rejection of Ohio since Philip Roth wrote Goodbye Columbus."

[dawnie51]

26. It's gonna happen......

I'm in Ohio. Mitt has already lost here. They just aren't letting on yet. You are hard pressed to find a Romney sign here; the big ones that the party puts up on the major thoroughfares are even fewer. VERY few homes, even the ones with republican state signs, don't have a RomneyRyan sign out with them. I live in a mostly rural county 50 south of Columbus and it is really a stark contrast to elections in the past. NO ONE likes these two.

[Maeve]

27. I'll back you up on that

Greater Columbus area here, with ties southward....and there would have to be a major shift for Romney to take Ohio--early voting starts Tuesday.

[HopeHoops]

28. He's going to lose Ohio and Pennsylvania. That does him in right there.

[dogindia]

30. kick and Rec...N/T

[Stargleamer]

31. Did you calculate this right?

I'm showing that if Romney wins in Colorado, Nevada, Wisconsin, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, and Iowa he has 279 EV to Obama's 259. I went here to calculate: [link:http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2012/ecalculator#_| You would need to throw Arizona into Obama's column to get Obama up to 270 to Romney's 268. Is this what you meant or am I missing something?