Robert Schlesinger

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

November 4, 2008 RSS Feed 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

Robert Schlesinger

Robert Schlesinger is managing editor for opinion at U.S. News and World Report, overseeing all opinion editorial content. He is the author of White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters. E-mail him at rschlesinger@usnews.com. Follow him on Twitter: @rschles.

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