Mike Meehan says Dems have 21 states in play now.

[napi21]

He's an advisor to the Kerry campaign. He said they just added NC to make it 21 states. What are the other 20? I thought I was hearing it was a lot less than that.

[wyethwire]

1. Name them

1. Ohio.
2. Penn
3. Michigan
4. Wisconsin
5. West Virginia
6. Missouri

[Hawkeye-X]

2. Colorado is in play...

Florida. Montana.

[Beetwasher]

5. Montana??

I think that's a stretch...

[Hawkeye-X]

11. Republican Gov is endangered

Might as well vote the new Democratic governor...

[wyethwire]

3. more

7. Florida
8. Arkansas
9. Louisiana
10. Minnesota
11. Iowa
12. New Hampshire
13. Oregon
14. Nevada

[wyethwire]

6. More

15. Arizona
16. New Mexico
17. Colorado
18. Maine
19. New Jersey
20. Delaware
21. North Carolina

Some of these I consider safe blue states (Maine, NJ, Delaware)

[ps1074]

9. I believe these 21 states are

1. Oregon
2. Washington
3. Arizona
4. New Mexico
5. Nevada
6. Colorado
7. Minnesota
8. Iowa
9. Missouri
10. Wisconsin
11. Illinois
12. Michigan
13. Ohio
14. Pennsylvania
15. West Virginia
16. Virginia
17. North Carolina
18. Florida
19. Maine
20. New Hampshire
21. New Jersey / Arkansas (whichever suits you better)

[TruthIsAll]

14. These states are safe for Dems and not "in play"

Put it this way: if Kerry lost any of these, he would be in deep do-do, because they all went for Gore last time..

Illinois
Maine
New Jersey
Washington
Michigan
Minnesota

[Beetwasher]

4. I Think He Means Kerry Can Win 21 Total

That number probably includes safe states like CA and NY and the battlegrounds like PA, FL etc. I think Edwards ads a few states to the battleground category that were once considered fairly safe for Bush, like NC and VA.

[RichV]

7. No

There were already 18-19 recognized battleground states. The Edwards selection appears to have added a couple in the opinion of Meehan. Kerry sure as heck better win more than 21 states.

[Beetwasher]

10. Corrected!

I'm wrong, you're right!

[TruthIsAll]

15. Kerry could win at least 31 states/384 EV

* Denotes battelground	
State	
AL	
AK	
AZ*	
AR*	6
CA	55
CO	9
CT	7
DE	3
DC	3
FL*	27
GA	
HI	4
ID	
IL	21
IN	
IA*	7
KS	
KY	
LA	9
ME	4
MD	10
MA	12
MI*	17
MN*	10
MS	
MO*	11
MT	
NE	
NV*	5
NH*	4
NJ	15
NM*	5
NY	31
NC	15
ND	
OH*	20
OK	
OR*	7
PA*	21
RI	4
SC	
SD	
TN*	
TX	
UT	
VT	3
VA	13
WA*	11
WV*	5
WI*	10
WY	
	384

[napi21]

8. I really hope you're right. I just have been hearing something like 13

or maybe 15 states in play. I don't necessarily share that opinion. I think there are soooo many things brewing right now, like the Plame investigation, 9/11 report, CIA problems, etc., I think so much will happen in the next 4 months, this election will be Kerry/Edwards by a much larger margine than they're talking about today.

[ps1074]

12. check my list above

I believe from these 22 states above only 3 or 4 will not be in play in 3 months time.

[SoCalDem]

13. Interactive map here.. Do your own calculations..Fun!!!

Try YOUR choices
http://www.edwardsforprez.com/map.html




They only need these states

MY choices

[catmandu57]

16. From what I've been reading here, Texas

itself may be in play. That would be a sound drubbing to take the monkeyboy's* adopted state away.