Bush or Kerry: The Electoral College Map

The LA Times has a cool tool to track the electoral college on their website. Of course as with all polling results, keep a sound head and a grain of salt in your palm.

Check out the 2004 Electoral Vote Tracker

The U.S. presidential election is decided by the results of 51 electoral vote contests. In all states except Maine and Nebraska the electoral votes go to the winner of the popular vote in a "winner-take-all" system. Thus, trends in the campaign must be considered on a state-by-state basis.

Electoral Vote Changes for 2004:

After the 2000 census, seats in the House of Representatives were reallocated based on new population trends. Electoral votes are based on those numbers. Here are the changes for 2004 from 2000:

Gained Electoral Votes: Arizona (+2); Florida (+2); Georgia (+2); Texas (+2); California (+1); Colorado (+1); Nevada (+1); North Carolina (+1). All gained electoral votes are either in Bush dominated states on swing states

Lost Electoral Votes: New York (-2); Pennsylvania (-2); Connecticut (-1); Indiana (-1); Illinois (-1); Michigan (-1); Mississippi (-1); Ohio (-1); Oklahoma (-1); Wisconsin (-1).

Comments

[Steve]

Here is an Electoral College map updated for the latest polls.

http://www.angelfire.com/dc2/electoral/index.html

Check it out, Kerry's pretty far ahead right now.

[Kare]

How can anyone trust that treasonist Kerry. Stop and think... With all the pictures he had of himself being a hero. Where were the pictures of the atrocites that he claimed our sholders were committing... HUH!
Kerry would do just exactly what they did in Viet Nam. Not let the troops win. And just pull them out.

[Zack Zulock]

Im from Loganville, Georgia, and im completely behind Bush. Kerry and fellow Democrats say that the economy is the most important thing to worry about. Well if we don't persue the war on terror, and we get attacked again, there will be no economy to worry about. We are still recovering from september 11, we do not need another attack on the soil of the US. Bush is the only way to go.

[Jackie]

John Kerry took an oath long before he testified before congress in 1971. It went exactly like this:

" I, John F. Kerry, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God"

Then after 4 months in Viet Nam with his political asperations already if full swing Mr. Kerry curtailed his tour and started bad-mouthing the very men with whom he had served.

He fancies himself the next John F. Kennedy, well let me tell you--PT109had a leader who though of the men first and did not abandon them or betray them. Only 2 of the sailors that served with Kerry are supporting him today. That says something.

While still under this oath Mr. Kerry met with leaders form Hanoi in Paris. And under Another oath to congress LIED.

He said that the pivotal moment in his "change" came when he was in Cambodia Christmas ,December 1968 and heard President Nixon declare that there were no US forces in Cambodia.

Well now--facts are facts--
1. Nixon was elected in 1968--took office in January 1969
2. At no time during his tenure in Viet Nam was John Kerry in Cambodia
3. Kerry never spent a December in Viet Nam

He called the soliers there "a generation of Monsters" he said the he too commited atrocities. He has backed away from the "war criminal status" since he has his sites on the presidency.

How can we trust a man who would willing lie about a "pivotal" moment in is life? HE has missed 64% of the votes he is supposed to cast in representation of his Massachusetts District. He leaves them un-represented. Over 30 years he has missed more votes than he has cast.

He seeks to build a coalition with France & Germany over Iraq--It ain't gonna happen--I live in Germany.
The foreign minister of Germany Fischer is a former terrorist. He helped the Badder-Meinhof gang infiltrate RHein-Main AFB and bomb Americans. (He was a Taxi driver with acces passes) France is a sour grapes nation that thinks it should be more important and powerfull than they are. Today Jacques Chiraque is recommending that sanctions against China be lifted. They were put in place over the Massacre of Tienamin Square. All they limit is the sale of weapons to China.
Chiraque needs a new customer for his defense industry manafacturers sincce Iraq is no longer buying to the tune of 1.75 Billion per year.

Trust me--these aren't the "allies" we want. All France has tried to do since 1946 is undermine the USA's world influence.

We Need Bush to give us clear leadership. We need better cantidates to step up to the plate in the Democratic Party and we need to be rid of Terry McAuliff.

[Robert]

I'm tired of people trashing Kerry's Vietnam war record. At least he HAD a Vietnam war record. He didn't use family influence to get a soft berth stateside. And who has more of a right to criticize the war than someone who was there?

[Mark]

I too am tired of all the Kerry vietnam bashing. However it does show that this country never healed from that war. Obviously we have just buried all those old resentments, divisions and hatreds from the past. I think what bothers people so much about Kerry is that he was a soldier who said no. He saw that a war was wrong and he had the guts to come back and tell the world that he was no longer proud of being a soldier or being an American becasue of what was going on in Vietnam. Much like the situation today. Everyday we hear more and more soldiers questioning, refusing to go back to Iraq, going Awol in record numbers. And we in our need to always be right are once again turning our heads and sticking them back in the sand. I support our trips. I admire someone who has the courage to put their life on the line. I do not admire a man who sends us to war over his own personal agenda.I do not want to be part of a war that is killing more women and children every day just as Vietnam did. We now know that we should not have been in Vietnam. Listen to the tape of the incident that started the war. It is very clear that we had no idea whether enemy fire had attacked our ship. We made an assumption based on fear and based on the desire to not be seen as weak. Thousands of people died because we had to save face. Have we learned nothing.

Yes Senator Kerry may have overstated the case of atrocities when he came back and I understand that some soldiers who felt they were doing their duty may take offense at that. And maybe he should apologize for any harm caused by that but if you remember that time period it took overstating just to get the government's attention. We were headlong into a war we could not win and should not have fought to begin with. We are in the same place today and we need someone like John Kerry to get us out of it.

Folks its time for the average American to do some reading, study history and realize that we can't go bombing every country we don't like. I am sorry the conservatives in this country don't like this but we live in a global community and we are not in charge of the world. And we need to do a much better job about protecting the rights of citizens of this country before we go around telling the rest of the world how to behave.

Now on a much more factual as opposed to an editorial note. There are more than two of Kerry's fellow vietnam soldiers supporting him. As far as the whole vietnam/Cambodia Christmas thing I don't know whether that is an instance of misrepresntation or not. He may have gotten his dates wrong. I don't think he deliberately lied . It would serve him no purpose to do so. I do know that he did serve in the war and that he did save the lives of his crew members.

I also know that George Bush was assigned to Guard duty in Alabama and not one person has stepped up to say that they served with him. Not only that, if memory serves me correctly even if he did show up in Alabama I don't think the Vietnamese ever attacked there

[Monica]

I believe this country is in for some really hard times. How could the American people vote for a president who lies. We are in Iraq based on Bush's lies that Saddam had WMD. How could any one look past that? Husband's, Wive's, and there children are out on those front lines fighting for Bush's lies. He's a greedy man and nothing good will come from him. May God Bless us all for another 4 years of Bush's greed and dishonesty.