The 270th Electoral Vote?
With less than four weeks to go, both CNN and NBC have Senator Obama on pace to pick up 264 Electoral Votes - just 6 away from victory. That means Obama can clinch the Presidency by holding those states and picking up any of the big toss-up states like Ohio, Florida, or Virginia.
There's also a road to victory that runs right through the historically deep-red state of Nebraska. If Obama were to win the 5 electoral votes from Nevada -- which has flipped from slightly Republican to majority Democratic -- he'd be just one electoral vote away from the magic number of 270. That's where Nebraska comes in. Nebraska allocates its votes by Congressional District and Democrats are running strong in the state's 2nd district. Republicans are so scared of losing there that they've sent Governor Sarah Palin to the district this week to rally their base.
The DCCC has also gotten into the
fight to turn the district's
Congressional seat blue. The DCCC has added Democratic candidate Jim Esch to
our Red to Blue program and invested six-figures into television ads in the
district. Esch ran a surprisingly close race in 2006, and is an
even stronger candidate in 2008. Current polling shows Esch within striking distance of winning this
ruby-red
district and helping to
boost the Obama campaign over the top to 270. You can support Esch on our
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