Expanding the Map, Part 4

Obama really is going to be playing in all 50 states. Burnt Orange Report says that David Axelrod has promised there will be 15 paid Obama staffers working in the state. As Ben Smith says:

That, plus, spending of, say, $10 million on ads — as somebody speculated yesterday, and I can’t find the link — [...]

Expanding the Map, Part 3

One of the potential benefits to Republicans of John McCain’s candidacy was supposed to be his appeal to Hispanic voters. After the GOP has spent much of the last 4 years trying their hardest to alienate the fastest growing block of voters in the country, McCain was supposed to be able to reach out to [...]

Expanding the Map, Part 2

One other way to look at expanding the map. The chart above is from FiveThrityEight, mapping how Obama is doing relative to how Kerry did against Bush. The states that McCain is doing better than Bush in are, for the most part, either Republican base states like Kentucky and Tennessee or Democratic base states, like [...]

Expanding the Map

One of Barack Obama’s real advantages over John McCain is his ability to pour his incredible amount of money into states that haven’t seen real Democratic Presidential campaigns in ages.
Battleground states with lots of electoral votes will continue to draw enormous attention and resources from both sides. This much won’t change. But Obama will have [...]