The President Leads Romney with Rove Math

Posted on April 28, 2012 at 9:36 am by Bob Cesca

Seriously. Karl Rove’s map has the president leading Romney in electoral votes.

I dig how Ohio, Colorado and New Mexico are in the president’s column.

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  • JackDaniel07

    I’d soil my magic underpants if Obama stole Utah from Mittens

  • http://twitter.com/SugaRazor Razor

    I don’t take stock in polls, especially this early, but I find it hilarious that Karl Rove think the only big “swing” states are Iowa, Missouri, Virginia, North and South Carolina and Florida. Eight years ago, the only toss-up there would’ve been FL and the rest would be deep red.

    Is it possible that the GOP is losing their psycho stranglehold on even the redneck states?

  • http://twitter.com/bubblegenius Bubble Genius

    I swear he’s only doing this because he’ll be able to talk about Mitten’s “recovery” at a later date.

  • eljefejeff

    huffpost/pollster has it the same but has NV/CO as tossups. Obama has the edge but a lot can happen in 6 months. The economy doesn’t seem to be recovering as quickly as before, and even though republicans are obstructing, they’ll paint Obama as a weak leader who can’t get anything passed.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kevin-Krupski/100002308768984 Kevin Krupski

    So Obama has already won it according to the map (if you include the swing Obama states and the magic number is 270 right?). Even though a lot will happen over the 6 months Romney is not getting much support even from the Puppet master.
    Romney Fever, Catch It.

  • D_C_Wilson

    Even leaving Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida as toss-ups, this gives Obama more states than he won in 2008.

    South Carolina, the first state to secede and where the Civil War officially began, is now conceivably winnable by a black candidate.

    Arizona, McCain’s home state and the source of the wingnuttiest laws since the 2010 elections, only leans red. So does Bush and Perry’s home state of Texas. I’ll bet the reason for both is because Romney is bleeding Hispanic voters. If this trend continues with the rising Hispanic population in those states, the GOP may soon lose the entire Southwest for a generation much like Johnson lost the Southeast over desegregation.

    Romney is also going to have to spend resources to defend Kentucky (the state that elected Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell to the Senate), Tennessee (the state that stayed red even with native son Al Gore ran), and Georgia (Newt’s home state).

    That this map comes from Karl Rove, the architect of most of the GOP’s worst tendencies, is soooooo delicious.

  • muselet

    I left this comment at Nicole’s place yesterday:

    Perhaps. On the other hand, if Karl Rove said water is wet, I’d be disinclined to take his word for it.

    Karl Rove poor-mouthing Mitt Romney’s chances is all the more reason for a robust GOTV effort by Ds and liberals.

    Rove being Rove, I’m going to say he doesn’t believe a word of it. He’s trying to depress Democratic turnout (“Why bother voting? Even Karl Rove, the spawn of Satan, thinks Obama’s going to win!”) and, as Bubble Genius says above, give Mitt Romney a “comeback” narrative.

    –alopecia