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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Smiling Bob who wrote (41019)	10/29/2008 10:59:15 AM
From: puborectalis	Respond to of 149317

The polling shows Obama holding solid leads in Ohio (7 percentage points), Nevada (12 points), Colorado (9) and Virginia (7), all Republican states won by Bush and collectively offering 47 electoral votes. Sweeping those four — or putting together the right combination of two or three — would almost certainly make Obama president. Under the U.S. system, the national popular vote does not determine the presidential victor. Instead, the winning candidate must amass 270 electoral votes in what amounts to a state-by-state contest. Each state is allocated electors roughly according to population. Obama can earn 252 electors by merely reclaiming states won by John Kerry in 2004. There are only two Kerry states still in contention — Pennsylvania with 21 votes and New Hampshire with four. AP-GfK polls show Obama leading both by double digits.