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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Question

Reading this post that tries to build electoral maps off current polling (polling now, so "for what it's worth,") I got to wondering how does the very different Obama electoral map affect the issues and emphasis?

For a generation, the presidential elections have been waged on the battlegrounds Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Does shifting the key states to the west into Colorado, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, etc, create a different mix of issues or emphasis than Fla/Pa/Ohio? Does it change the evangelicals' influence, for instance?

Not endorsing that post, just thinking out loud.