I am quickly copy/pasting the reduced text of this article (thanks fellow Kossacks who advised me of copyright issues) from American Thinker, a far-right website which I recommend you visit only if ready to see naked political vitriol. While (typically) not quite so bad as Free Republic, I have sometimes wondered if, on its bad days, AT was auditioning to be a pep-talk site for budding domestic terrorists.
I have neither fact-checked this article, nor attempted analysis even of the numbers posted by its author - I'm afraid I don't have time at the moment. I leave such math-crunching, as well as reasoned opposition argument, to you, fellow Kossacks. Take it away after the jump.
Disclaimer: I, Jon Sitzman, did not write this article. I do not own it, nor am I attempting to sell it. The author of this article, Adam Yoshida, retains all practical and intellectual property rights. This text is posted solely for purposes of comparison and discussion.
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If we begin using the 2008 map with the 2012 distribution of Electoral Votes, the initial Electoral Vote count would be, as mentioned above, 359-179.
Moving 1657 votes from the Democratic to the Republican column in Nebraska gives the Republicans the vote from that state's Second Congressional District and makes it 358-180.
A swing of 7089 votes in North Carolina gives us 343-195.
Switching 14,196 votes in Indiana changes the final result to 332-206.
118,225 voters in Florida would give that state to the GOP, putting the count at 303-235.
It would take only 131,112 votes to give Ohio to the Republicans, putting us at 285-253.
117,264 Virginians makes it 272-266.
And, finally, 73,281 votes would be enough to give Iowa (and the White House) to the Republican with 272 Electoral Votes to Obama's 266.
In this scenario, by the way, Obama would win 8,624,332 more votes than the Republican nominee, giving him a victory in the popular vote of 6.57%.
Now, obviously, such a perfectly effective distribution of votes for the Republicans is unlikely even if it is mathematically possible. However, the increasing gap between the deepest of the Blue States and the Red States -- Obama is actually polling better in California now than he was in 2008 -- makes national polling increasingly irrelevant in a Presidential Election.
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Let's hear it, ladies and gents. Is he right? If so, how do we stop this?