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Originally Posted by MikeF-NH
I found it interesting that if FLA with I think 30 EC votes that was won by 1% and I think WVA with 18 or 20 EC votes that was won by less than 2% had gone the other way, we'd have a new POTUS....it was a closer election than it seems based on final EC counts. We are certainly a country pretty evenly divided in what we want from our leadership.
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You mean Virginia and not West Virginia, right? West Virginia has 5 electoral votes and Virginia has 13. Florida has 29 electoral votes. Anyway, your math doesn't work. Given a situation where Obama loses Florida, Virginia and West Virginia, and the other states reflect the real results, Obama still wins with 290 electoral votes, 20 more than is needed. Even if you add Ohio to his theoretical losses, he still wins the race with 272 electoral votes.