President Elect 2008 Electoral College Projection (6/9/2008)

President Elect's analysis of the 2008 Electoral College vote, pitting Republican Senator John McCain against Democratic Senator Barack Obama, shows that if the election were today the United States would be electing its first black President.

President Elect projects that Senator Obama will win 284 electoral votes and Senator McCain will win 254.

The Democrats have finally chosen their nominee and in the weeks ahead they could stretch their lead. However, the time they spent fighting the nomination has given the Republicans time to firm up their base. Some "red states" that might have been in play may not be anymore. But the states that are in play will be heavily fought and we probably won't know where they stand until election day. Watch for this year's battleground states to be: Ohio, Colorado, New Mexico, and to a lesser extent Florida, Virginia, Nevada, and New Hampshire. Bad news for Republicans is they won all but one of these in 2004 and haven't flipped hardly any "blue states" into play. Bad news for Democrats is Republicans won all but one of these in 2004!