A suggested website to follow this election season:

[remicks]

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-- The Votemaster

I followed it daily four years ago and plan to again this time .
Very thoughtful analysis and commentary .


Here is a bit from the latest post there (which also discusses the Mormon presidential candidate's $10, 000 dollar bet) :

The 2012 Contest: Whole Foods Clients vs. Cracker Barrel Shoppers Permalink

The Washington Post has an amusing--but probably fundamentally true--story today about food and politics. In 2008, Barack Obama carried 81% of the counties with a Whole Foods and just 36% of the counties with a Cracker Barrel. This is hardly a coincidence. Whole Foods locates its stores in upscale urban areas with an educated, environmentally conscious population full of young people and professionals--precisely the people who tend to vote Democratic. Cracker Barrel's restaurants and gift shops have a Southern theme and hark back to an earlier America of small towns and friendly neighbors. The demographics of its customers clearly skew Republican. No doubt someone will soon get a list of where each company has its stores and use it to predict the 2012 presidential election.

http://www.electoral-vote.com/index.html



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[Bernie]

Remicks,

Amusing yes, but that analysis is not far from the truth :-)

Thanks for the Votemaster link as I knew I had seen the US map with breakdown by party... and couldn't remember where I saw it.

[remicks]

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where the action is .....

Solid GOP Alabama (9) Alaska (3) Arkansas (6) Idaho (4) Indiana (11) Georgia (16) Kansas (6) Kentucky (8) Louisiana (8) Mississippi (6) Montana (3) Nebraska (5) N. Dakota (3) Oklahoma (7) S. Dakota (3) Tennessee (11) Texas (38) Utah (6) West Virginia (5) Wyoming (3) 170 EVs

Lean GOP Arizona (11) 11 EVs

Tossups Colorado (9) Florida (29) Missouri (10) Nevada (6) N. Carolina (15) Ohio (18) Virginia (13) 100 EVs

Lean Dem Iowa (6) New Hampshire (4) New Mexico (5) 15 EVs

Solid Dem California (55) Connecticut (7) D.C. (3) Delaware (3) Hawaii (4) Illinois (20) Maine (4) Maryland (10) Massachusetts (11) Michigan (16) Minnesota (10) New Jersey (14) New York (29) Oregon (7) Pennsylvania (20) Rhode Island (4) Vermont (3) Washington (12) Wisconsin (10) 242 EVs

Now we have 170 EVs solid for Romney, 11 leaning to Romney, 100 tossups, 15 leaning to Obama, and 242 solid for Obama. Let's leave the analysis at that for the moment. Suffice it to say that nearly all the action will be in the 11 states in the middle three columns.

http://www.electoral-vote.com/

270 EVs -electoral votes- needed to win.

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[paul]

remicks, I'm spending most on my political time over at Firedoglake. Home for true lefty subversives like me.