As it stands now democrats will keep 51 seats.

It was all covered.

Both Vanderbilt and Johns Hopkins offered me a full ride. Actually, the seemingly less expensive, public schools wanted me to pay more (I applied to several public universities in California).

I would definitely be fearful if Romney became president, though. Frankly, I get the impression that he only wants to become president to satisfy his personal desires.... to be viewed as a great person. There's not really a sense that he cares to serve the people of this nation.

It's very often nearly tied in the popular vote though. It all depends on distribution of states that each candidate has a lead in and Obama clearly has the lead there. He has a lead in, among several other states, places like California, Illinois, New York, and Florida. Those four alone give him almost exactly half the electoral votes he needs to win. On top of that, he currently leads in states giving him a collective 200 more votes. He'd have to lose a lead in 76 Electoral votes for Romney to surpass him at all. It is extremely doubtful he could lose that many states by simply being less aggressive in one debate, it's practically impossible.

California and the other states besides the bolded one, don't matter, they never go Republican.
Florida is not for Obama, you need to look at the poll SAMPLES. It shows WHO they polled and WHICH political party they belong too. The polls are not accurate.

there were polls predicting dems wouldn't do as bad as they did in 2010 right before they got clobbered tho...

So all the states that Obama is nearly guaranteed to win that collectively bring him to what he needs to win overall... don't matter?

Florida is leaning toward Obama. If you don't even know what poll I'm using as a source how can you claim it's inaccurate?

ohio was leaning kerry in 2004 tho...so...

...well, of course they matter. They (and Florida) would give him about half the electoral votes he would need to win the whole election. If he wins Florida, Ohio, New York, Illinois, and California...I mean, it would be over. Romney would be done.

Or what RDF said, I guess.

Please appreciate how lucky you are to have your current president on debate.

Our Argentinian president didn't show up to any of the debates and still was re-elected. Mess.

Florida and Ohio do matter but the others don;t...republicans have won elections without them before? How do you guys not understand this?

Anyways goodnight.

For real? How'd he get voted in? Do they just not care? Cause I know in America if someone didnt show up the media would be trashing them so bad.

No shade intended, fyi, just curious

So disappointed in Obama this debate. Romney lied and lied and lied and dodged and lied, and Obama didn't go after any of it.

I did all the research for the electoral votes myself my looking through average current poll results for every single state in combination with trends in the way states have voted over the past four elections.

By the way, my poll sources are usually listed on politico.com.

Here's Florida most recently:



It might be close, but if Romney didn't shift Florida enough tonight it's likely he won't be able to in the end.

Well, Argentina is a 3rd world country. This type of things aren't rare here. Cristina Kirchner (our current president) has had five news conferences in five years and has only occasionally taken questions.

To know that the Kirchner family has been in the power for the last 10 years says it all. First Nestor and now his wife, Cristina, for the 2nd time.

Yes. Wow.

I'm kind of worried now but also confused...wasn't Romney supposed to be a bumbling idiot ala Bush 2.0? Did he have someone telling him what to say?

The Yahoo! front page poll has Romney winning the debate at 58%.

What can obama go after.... Romney was on point