map-changing election

Over-Running The Table

by: Paul Rosenberg

Sat Nov 22, 2008 at 10:03

At DKos yesterday, Jed L posted the following map in a FP diary "Obama Won 197 Of 196 Battleground EVs": It's a map of supposed "battleground states" from the Washington Post's Dan Balz and Alec Macgillis on June 8, 2008:

As Jed L notes, Obama did indeed win more battleground EVs than the Post had identified just over a week after Obama had clinched the Democratic nomination.  And therein lies a tale quite opposed to the current narrative of a "center-right nation."

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