The funny thing about your map is that DE never gets it!
Sorry, but that map does not take into account the next 10 months of rehabilitation and resurrection The One will undergo.
By next October, the MSM/Dems will be proclaiming him as The Second Coming.
He still retains a mid-40s approval. All he needs is about 5% more. Look for rosey economic figures to continue. Look for the unemployment numbers [not the actual unemployment, just the numbers] to drop drastically by late summer. Look for the parting of the Potomac or him walking across on it.
Looks like Romney doesn’t need my one vote to carry Mississippi next year. So I can go fishing and keep my hands clean of the coming RINO debacle.
You may have to update your map. I think California’s electors go to whoever wins the popular vote nationwide.
Jerry Brown OKs potential change in awarding electoral votes .
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2011/08/california-electoral-votes.html
You make a good point here. The fact that the GOP will do really well in the old confederacy or the Left does well in California and the Northeast isn’t important. It is a fifty state race, or more accurately, probably a question of a dozen or so states.