Which states are the "battleground" states?

[briv1016]

I haven't seen a unified list of the "battleground" states. Which are they?

[tedoll78]

1. Off the top of my head..

I'm guessing here..

NV
CO
MO
IN
OH
NC
FL

Everything else seems to be lean Obama/strong Obama/lean McCain/strong McCain.

Note that even if Obama were to lose ALL of these, he'd still win the election.

[27inCali]

2. CO, NV, IN, OH, FL, VA, NC, MO

In case I fucked up any of the abreviations:

Colorado, Nevada, Indiana, Ohio, Florida, Virginia, North Carolina, Missouri

In all these states they are either tied or slight lead for Obama except Virginia, which may actually be moving away from the toss-up column into lean Obama pretty soon here with the polling we are seeing.

Don't buy the Bullshit that says Pennsylvania or New Hampshire are toss-ups. It's the MSM trying to make things seem closer than what they really are.

Other states that are not considered Battleground states but are slowly drifting in that direction are:

West Virginia -McCain leads by 5 points
Georgia -McCain by 8
Texas -McCain by 8

other states that might be a shocker this year:
Montana, Arizona, Arkansas, Mississippi (call me crazy, I'm just optimistic)

[Connonym]

3. WI too, I think

it's one of the states he's focusing on since he dropped out of Michigan. My gut tells me that Obama will take the state though. If I'm not mistaken the Democratic candidate has taken WI in every presidential election since 1992 but it's been close. The fact that Obama is considered to be solidly ahead in Iowa seems pretty remarkable to me since W won in Iowa. Not that I'm dissing Iowa, I'm from Iowa. I'm really proud that Obama's got the lead there.

[fujiyama]

4. Dukakis took WI in '88

WV is the only state Obama likely won't take that Dukakis took.

WI will be somewhat close, but not quite the same margin as the previous 2 elections, which Gore and Kerry both won by less than 1%.

[1Hippiechick]

7. It is 49% - 49% in NC which has not voted Democrat since the 70s. n/t

[davidpdx]

11. I agree with you on Pennsylvania, it looks like McCain's

chances there are slim to none. There are virtually very few blue states he will be able to flip, which puts them on the defensive since Obama is doing well in so many of the traditional red states.

I know someone over here in Korea that is from Montana and she keeps hoping her state will flip for Obama. I think Montana, Arizona, Arkansas and Mississippi might be a reach.

North Carolina though, bring it on.

[occe]

5. can someone tell me why WV is out of reach for Obama?

Why can't he snag it?

[markevil]

6. Ever been there?

I have family there.. Not getting down on WV, beautiful country, but it is still 1950 there.

[pstokely]

8. even Dukakis won that state

?

[BumRushDaShow]

13. Racism

Looks like ethnic cleansing in there. :shrug: Only 3% AA, surrounded by states with from 8 - 30% AA population.

One of my sister's best friends' family is from there. They had to get the hell out and ironically, many from their little town came here to Philly to settle.

[saltpoint]

9. Florida and Indiana.

[tekisui]

10. You got it.

VA, CO, OH, PA, NC, NV are Obama's. IN and FL are the toss ups, and MO.

[Thegonagle]

12. Hmmm...

Let’s see: ND, SD, NE, KS, OK, AZ, ID, WY, ID, AR, LA, MS, TN, KY, SC, GA, AL, AK, UT, and TX. :patriot:

(In 2012.)