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National Review Examines Obama and Electoral College

Posted by PATRICK EDABURN, Assistant Editor in At TMV.
Sep 29th, 2011 | 2 responses

An interesting article that takes a look at how the new 2012 electoral college impacts things.

New Republic is hardly a right wing rag so the conclusions are interesting.

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2 Responses to “National Review Examines Obama and Electoral College”

ShannonLeee says:

September 30, 2011 at 9:41 am

ehh… like any of that will matter with the current crop of Rep candidates.
CStanley says:

September 30, 2011 at 12:26 pm

Gotta love the last paragraph:

So what does this all mean? Barring unlikely circumstances, the core challenge facing the Obama campaign is not to execute a thread-the-needle Electoral College strategy. It is rather to spend the next thirteen and a half months giving the people credible reasons to believe that the economy will fare better in a second Obama term than it did in the first.

I think he’s right of course but it’s a bit sad that it’s a noteworthy situation when an incumbent has to actually make a case for his reelection instead of coasting to a second term by taking for granted the number of electoral votes from states that safely support his party.