2008 Electoral College Scenarios -- Obama Sweep

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The Obama sweep scenario is looking more likely now that Economic fears grow, and linking of McCain to Bush policies is starting to sink in. The key states in the sweep are:

• VIRGINIA feeding into N. CAROLINA
• FLORIDA + OHIO swinging despite the 2000 and 2004 fiasco
  
• the unswingables INDIANA + W.VIRGINIA following the OH/VA influence
• Southwest sweep: all of Nevada, New Mexico, and Colorado
  
• No attrition in the border-line lake states: Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania
  
• and MISSOURI maintaining its role as single-state predictor