Barack clearly ahead, says Rove Geoff Elliott, Washington correspondent | October 07, 2008
KARL Rove, the architect of US President George W. Bush's two election victories, says Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama now has a clear winning lead on the US's vast electoral map. Yesterday, for the first time, Mr Rove, whose electoral projections feature on Rove.com, said a compilation of polls put Senator Obama over the magic 270 electoral-vote count needed to win a presidential election. "If the election were held today, Obama would win every state (the then Democratic presidential candidate) John Kerry won in 2004, while adding New Mexico, Iowa, and Colorado to his coalition," Mr Rove wrote. Mr Rove warned that the campaign had already swung in dramatic ways and that the race was "susceptible to rapid changes". No definite prediction was possible, he said. But with the election just one month away, Senator Obama is on the attack entirely on Republican territory - a far different scenario from that at the same point in the cycle four years ago, when polls had Senator Kerry in a neck-and-neck battle with Mr Bush, and with fewer states up for grabs. Now, Senator Obama is leading polls across traditional Republican states - including Virginia, which a Democrat presidential candidate has not won since 1964. Mr Rove projected that if the election had been held at the weekend, Senator Obama would have won at least 273 electoral votes - three more than needed for victory - to Senator McCain's 163 votes, with 102 votes remaining as toss-ups. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24456330-5013451,00.html Damn, I guess everyone isn't as happy with Republicans superior economic theories as Republicans have been telling everyone to be with. I said it years ago; "it's still the economy stupid". But now it's the stupids economy that has everyone concerned. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
