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2008 Electoral Map Predictions: 10-3-2008

32 days until election day Senator Barack Obama appears poised to change the electoral map and has several routes to 270 electoral vote.  Senator John McCain now finds himself defending traditional Republican states like Colorado, Virginia, North Carolina and Indiana.  The key swing states of 2000 & 2004, including Ohio and Florida, are leaning Obama [...]

Track the Electoral College Vote Predictions

TheTakeAway.org has created a great way to track and visualize the various electoral vote predictions from around the web, including Real Clear Politics, FiveThirtyEight, Intrade, the New York Times and many others. Each row represents who’s electoral prediction is being used and the columns represent individual states.
To get started just point you mouse [...]

2008 Electoral Map: 9-30-2008

Five weeks until election day and the electoral map provides Senator Barack Obama several routes to 270 electoral vote. The easiest of which appears to be to hold the 2004 Kerry states and pick up Iowa, New Mexico, and Colorado. Senator John McCain has fewer options is now defending Virginia, Nevada, Ohio, Florida, [...]

2008 Electoral Map: 9-23-2008

Six weeks until the presidential election and the electoral map tilts back towards Barack Obama after John McCain brief post-convention lead.

FiveThirtyEight.com :Obama 312, McCain 226
Electoral-Vote.com : Obama 264, McCain 261, Tossup 13
Princeton Election Consortium : Obama 273, McCain 265
Real Clear Politics : Obama 219, McCain 189, Toss Ups 130 | No Toss [...]

Karl Rove and Co.’s Electoral Map - September 10th 2008

Karl Rove, Bush’s political strategist, has a new electoral map out featured on the LA Times website.
Overall, Obama holds on to 226 electoral votes, while McCain moves up to 200 votes, and 112 votes are a toss-up, a new high in that category. McCain picked up two states from the toss-up column — Montana (3 [...]

Electoral Map Predictions - August 21st 2008

Barack Obama maintains a slight lead over John McCain in recent predictions

FiveThirtyEight.com :Obama 272, McCain 266
Electoral-Vote.com : Obama 264, McCain 261, Tossup 13
Princeton Election Consortium :  Obama 288, McCain 250
Real Clear Politics : Obama 228, McCain 191, Toss Ups 87 | No Toss Ups: Obama 264, McCain 274
Pollster.com :  Obama 260, McCain 261, [...]

Karl Rove and Co.’s Electoral Maps

Latest Karl Rove Electoral Map

Karl Rove and Co.’s Electoral Map - September 10th 2008
2008 Electoral Map: 9-23-2008
National electoral map: See-saw struggle as Obama sees and McCain saws | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles Times

Karl Rove, Bush’s political strategist, has been sharing these hypothetical electoral maps recently that show the differences in an [...]

Electoral Map Predictions - April 19th

Electoral-Vote.com has a preview of the 2008 Electoral Map based on recent polling data. Hillary Clinton currently has the edge over Barack Obama in the contest against John McCain as she has a better chance of winning Florida and Ohio.

With Obama as the nominee, the electoral college at the moment is [...]

FiveThirtyEight.com

FiveThirtyEight.com is a new political blog that has a wealth of information on what the 2008 electoral map will look like in November. 538 represents the total number of presidential electors that make up the United States Electoral College and meet every four years to cast the official votes for President of the United [...]

Electoral Vote Maps from 270toWin.com

The United States Electoral College is a term used to describe the 538 President Electors who meet every 4 years to cast the electoral votes for President and Vice President of the United States; their votes represent the most important component of the presidential election. 270toWin.com has a collection of maps showing how the Electoral College has voted by state since 1788.