Obama Charts a New Route to Re-election in terms of electoral votes

[WI_DEM]

WASHINGTON — With his support among blue-collar white voters far weaker than among white-collar independents, President Obama is charting an alternative course to re-election should he be unable to win Ohio and other industrial states traditionally essential to Democratic presidential victories.

Without conceding ground anywhere, Mr. Obama is fighting hard for Southern and Rocky Mountain states he won in 2008, and some he did not, in calculating how to assemble the necessary 270 electoral votes. He is seeking to prove that those victories on formerly Republican turf were not flukes but the start of a trend that will make Democrats competitive there for years.

Virginia, North Carolina and Colorado together have more than double the number of Ohio’s votes in the Electoral College — 37 versus 18. And Obama advisers say that the same demographic factors at play in those states are also present in states Mr. Obama lost in 2008 — like Arizona (whose senior senator, Mr. McCain, was his rival) and Georgia.

Except for Indiana, a long shot, Obama advisers say the president will be favored or competitive everywhere he won before, including Ohio. But polls underscore how tough a task he will have with independents in the industrial belt, where income and education levels are below the national average, compared with states like Colorado and Virginia with higher-income, better-educated independents.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/us/politics/obama-sees-a-path-to-12-victory-beyond-the-rust-belt.html?_r=1

[jenmito]

1. Obama is going to have to make sure the Repub. voter-suppression tactics don't work. He has to

get his team out to places like N.C. where he needs every single vote he can get, and help the people get the newly needed voter IDs.

[LiberalFighter]

2. Just watching MSNBC doing their electoral votes

And they have Indiana as light blue for the first time.

[jenmito]

4. It's light blue because Obama won it in the past-not because he's favored to win it right now. n/t

[OHdem10]

3. Not to smart, but what do I know.

No wonder the Unions are looking out for their own
self-interest.

[Robbins]

5. 2012

Besides Indiana He has shot at states he won In 2008.Indiana Is going to go back In Republican column.But,I don't think any Mccain State Is up for grabs.I might be wrong.

[bornskeptic]

8. MO and MT were close enough to be Obama possibilities.

GA and AZ are less likely, but not impossible.

[Safetykitten]

6. This will be a Carter type loss that will surprise the WH. So sad.

[JoePhilly]

7. Keep your fingers crossed!!!

:sarcasm:

[Johnny2X2X]

9. It's about the economy

If it recovers even modestly, he'll re election easily.

Those kooks at Drudge and Freep are saying he might drop out of the race and if he doesn't it looks like a blowout. Really? Drop out when your the front runner? Drop out when your likely to raise a lot more money that your opponent? These Cons are deluding themselves and they're going to be very disappointed next November.