Matthew Yglesias points the direction in his post: the Geographically smallest Electoral College map, which starts with the densest states and works down:
If Democrats can bring Indiana, Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida (or even two or three of them) firmly into the Democratic camp, the game is over for the foreseeable future.
Those states are clearly where Democrats’ long-term, big-picture political efforts need to be focused in the next two to four years.
Cross-posted at Angry Bear.
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[…] Appalachian voters to vote their own (and everyone else’s) economic self-interests. Turn the corner on a dozen or so counties in Indiana, Virginia, and North Carolina (and Florida), and Republicans will be permanently relegated to the wilderness that they seem so hell-bent on […]
[…] Appalachian voters to vote their own (and everyone else’s) economic self-interests. Turn the corner on a dozen or so counties in Indiana, Virginia, and North Carolina (and Florida), and Republicans will be permanently relegated to the wilderness that they seem so hell-bent on […]