Thursday, November 26, 2009

Opinion

Robert Schlesinger

Can't Get There From Here: McCain's Path Looks Blocked

November 04, 2008 09:56 PM ET | Robert Schlesinger | Permanent Link | Print

The bloviators—on CNN and MSNBC at least—are starting to do the math. Obama has around 200 electoral votes, depending on whose count you use. California will slide 54 more electoral votes into Obama's columns, Oregon will give him seven and Washington 11. That would put Obama at 272 EVs...and in a couple of months at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

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Robert Schlesinger is a deputy editor at U.S. News and World Report and oversees all opinion editorial content. He is the author of White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters.

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