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DON SURBER: States Obama Would Lose If The Election Were Held Today: Those states are Colorado, ?

By Glenn Reynolds

DON SURBER: States Obama Would Lose If The Election Were Held Today:

Those states are Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.

According to Surber Math those states carried 167 Electoral College votes in 2008 (2012 totals won?t be known until after the April 1 Census). Added to the 173 Electoral College votes that John McCain had and my friends, you would have a new president.

But the 2012 election is a long way off. Right?

Yeah, nothing for the White House to worry about. Move along.

UPDATE: Related: Chicago Cools to Barack Obama, Its Hometown Boy. “Gordy?s is the gathering place in this rundown, mainly black district. The chief topic of conversation is President Barack Obama, who started his political career as a community organiser in the area and whose wife, Michelle, grew up nearby. Over the past year, Clay, known as Cee Cee, has watched his clients go from soaring enthusiasm to deep disillusion.”

Plus this:

?Obama came to power because the American people were suffering from a bad case of charismaphilia,? said Milt Rosenberg, a social psychologist who hosts a radio show in Chicago. ?But after a year of profligate spending and programmes, the public really didn?t want, like healthcare, the bloom is off the rose.?

Charismaphilia is out? That must mean that “charismaphobia” is in! Hey, maybe that gives me a shot!

MORE: “What the Obama Administration needs to learn is that everyone has an alarm clock, even if they are set for different times… “

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on January 31, 2010 (boomark / email).