sock puppet wrote:I agree. And the Obama re-election campaign is focused heavily on this fact. Florida, NC, and Virginia will all go Obama if Romney is nominated. The vote the other night on the public employee union referendum in Ohio ought to put the Republicans on notice that 2012 is not going to be a cakewalk, despite his low approval numbers right now. The mid-west is starting to swing back over to Obama. If he gets Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, Virginia and North Carolina, the Republican nominee can kiss his own butt goodbye.
Other states to watch are Colorado, Nevada, and New Mexico. Whomever is the Republican nominee is, he (or she) needs to focus on these states and Pennsylvania and Michigan (and that's where Romney would be strong). They should put up a straw man campaign--not much nominee time--in Virginia, and force Obama to focus a lot of his resources there.
Electorally, it is still a Democrat's gambit.
Brother,
Romney has to take the East Coast and Ohio/Michigan...
You have to focus on Electoral Votes, and he has to win the Eastern seaboard. If he can win Florida he'll get the entire Eastern seaboard, minus New York (he'll get Mass and the North East). Losing the West isn't really a problem because he'll get the Hispanic vote if he picks up Rubio (which, I hope, he does because that's the right thing to do).
V/R
Dr. C