Obama Projected to Grab Another 5 States to McCain's 3

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Presidential Race

By Tom LeGro on November 4, 2008

TAGS: alabama, arkansas, barack obama, john mccain, michigan, minnesota, new york, rhode island, wisconsin, wyoming

Sen. Barack Obama is projected to win Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Rhode Island and Wisconsin, while Sen. John McCain is expected to take Alabama and Wyoming, according to the Associated Press.

Although these states were expected to go to their respective winners, Obama is growing a substantial lead after his projected win in Pennsylvania.

“Basically, the pattern we are seeing… [is] the parties are carrying the states they carried in 2004 with a couple of big exceptions,” NewsHour analyst David Brooks said Tuesday night. “Michigan is home of the Reagan Republicans. Those are the white working-class background of the Republican party basically because Michigan is in a recession.”

Obama’s electoral vote lead now stands at 175 to Sen. McCain’s 52. To win the presidency, a candidate must win 270 electoral votes.

“At this point, [the Obama campaign] remains cautiously optimistic,” NewsHour senior correspondent Judy Woodruff said from Chicago.

Comments

Posted:
11/ 4/08 at
09:28 PM

Meredith : Where is the information about polling results coming from? Who exactly reports them? And who do they report them to?
Posted:
11/ 4/08 at
09:29 PM

BARNEY : CAT FIGHT!!!
Posted:
11/ 4/08 at
10:03 PM

BARNEY : Its about time for the "fairness doctrine"to be implemented, and used against the extreme network bias on network TV. If Pennsylvanians, and Ohioans had heard the interview that Obama gave to the San Francisco Chronicle (in January) in which he said that his policy's would make everyone's electric bill's skyrocket (His words). Would he even be in the running? If he has his way the coal mines will be shut down. Funny this comes out the day before the election and none of the networks reported it! There is no more reporting of the news, we get plenty of theater and no substance, just the facts with out all the embellishments please. After the nightly news, out of "fairness" put on one of the radio right wingers.
Posted:
11/ 4/08 at
10:43 PM

JerryF : Thats nothing but a bunch of BS about the "coal" issue. Both the audio and the transcript are available at the SF Chron. More BS is the Arab connection that Ms. Palin paints as critical. All this is a smoke screen, trying to tarnish, to paint doubt, and mistrust just like the Bush crew did for the last two elections.
Posted:
11/ 4/08 at
10:55 PM

revbgary : When Pres. Obama turns out to be a moderate, a black Clinton, the people who said he was an Islamic Socialist Communist terrorist Anti-Christ will attribute his moderation to their prayers, and God's mercy in preserving the US for the election of President Palin in 2012.


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