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Can Obama Beat McCain in The South in 2008?
Last week I wrote about Barack Obama’s opportunities to beat John McCain in The Mountain West, an area where both Al Gore and John Kerry failed to win even a single Electoral Vote.
The South is another region where Kerry and Gore failed miserably during the past two Presidential Elections. The only two states that were even close for either of them were Florida and Tennessee for Gore in 2000.
Florida isn’t even really a part of The South culturally, except maybe in The Panhandle, and Tennessee, which Gore lost by 4-points, was his home state.
Kerry did not even make an effort to win any of these states with the exception of Florida, but as the nation’s oldest state, with a large Cuban population and with the President’s brother Jeb as Governor, Kerry was beat solidly there in 2004.
Fortunately for Democrats, The Nation and the rest of the world, 2008 is shaping up to be quite different in The South.
Barack Obama has a chance to win five states in The South (including Florida) that add up to a total of 76 Electoral Votes, and here they are:
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