Rove says McCain has "very steep...
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| Sun, 10-26-2008 - 8:50pm |
... uphill climb" ahead.
WALLACE: Well, let's begin with the latest version of the Rove electoral map. Let's put it up on the screen. This, of course, is an average of recent state polls.
It shows Obama with his biggest lead of the campaign, leading in states with 317 electoral votes to McCain's 157, with 270 needed to win the presidency.
Karl, you now have Ohio a blue state, Indiana, Colorado, Virginia. These are states that Republicans traditionally win.
ROVE: Yeah. And from Thursday — last Thursday was the most recent map before this one, and from Thursday there were 46 individual state polls in less than 48 hours, and they moved Indiana from being toss-up into the Obama column, giving him his largest lead thus far this campaign.
In order to — in order for McCain to win, he's got a very steep hill to climb. He's got to win all of the toss-up states, 64 electoral votes, all the yellow-shaded states on the map.
Then he needs to strip away Ohio and Indiana with 31 electoral votes to get him to 252. And then he needs to either win Colorado and Virginia, which gets him to 274, or win one of them plus Pennsylvania, which would get him to 282 or 286. It's a steep uphill climb.
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