Our Electoral Prediction - Obama Wins 355 To 183

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CNN has a very nice Electoral Map calculator that allows you to play political analyst by inputing your predictions on what states would go blue and red.  As you tweak the battleground states, you will see  how many electoral votes each candidate has.

So which States would make history on election night? Here’s how Huffington post sees it:

The East Coast states will report first. If John McCain is going to win, then he will win Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida. And then it will take the rest of the night to figure out if he still has enough electoral votes. Obama’s victory could be a lot easier to figure out.

If Obama wins Virginia - it’s over. That simple. He is comfortably ahead in all of the blue states that John Kerry won in 2004. He is very likely to win all of those. He is also comfortably ahead in Iowa and New Mexico. So, that means all he has to do to get an electoral majority is win Virginia, or Ohio, or Florida, or Colorado. Any of them will do. If McCain wins three out of the four, he still loses.

What does this mean for McCain? He is in bad position, really bad position. McCain’s campaign is seeing the impossible uphill climb they’re facing. In the past few days, we have been seeing finger pointing within the McCain camp, mostly with McCain’s advisors expressing their unhappiness with Sarah Palin going rouge.

I honestly do believe that the nation is going to be shocked by the results on November 4th. The republican saw a unexpected defeat when the Democrats took over the majority of the Senate in 2006. Back then, most Americans still had some faith in the Republican President and government. In 2008, we saw one of the biggest financial crisis in decades.

Here’s our electoral prediction, Obama wins by 355 to 183. To do that, we are predicting that Obama will take all the battleground states - Indiana, Florida, North Carolina and Virginia. Like we have said previously, we think the election  result should be known minutes after 9pm EST as results for eastern part of the country comes out. Being a Hoosier myself, I would personally want to see Indiana go blue this time around and we will soon have the true leadership that the nation needs.