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Originally posted by Mojo_PeiPei
Edwards is also from the South which helps. I seem to remember hearing somewhere that in the last 50 years the person that was able to carry the southern vote has won the presidency. I don't know how well a smug smarmy NorEaster catholic will be able to do that.
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Just doing the electroral math, the south(starting at VA and extending all the way to LA,
with KY
and TN ) is 128 votes. The smug smarmy NorEast is 122. They seem pretty even to me.
However, Bush II
did take the south...though in Clinton's second election Dole and he more or less split the south, and similarly with Clinton vs Bush. So I'd say it seems more likely that a
Democrat needs to get a couple southern states (most obviously Florida and maybe the Carolinas) in order to carry the overall vote.