Bush-Kerry Election May End in Landslide

RON FOURNIER
Associated Press

WASHINGTON - The presidential race is too close to project a winner right now, but that doesn't mean it will be too close on Election Day to prevent a landslide.

Winner-take-all Electoral College math could convert a modest burst of momentum from President Bush or Sen. John Kerry into a sweep of tossup states - and a presidential mandate.

With state and national polls showing the race essentially tied, Bush and Kerry are making strategic decisions based on the assumption that that the popular vote will be evenly divided and every Electoral College vote will count. Thus, in the final weeks of the campaign, they pulled money out of second-tier battlegrounds like Missouri and Oregon to focus on the few states that are most likely to break the stalemate.

That doesn't mean the dozen second-tier battlegrounds can't come into play. "The math adds up a lot of different ways," said Democratic strategist Jim Jordan.

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"I'm absolutely sure that all of these polls are underrepresenting key Democratic constituencies in a significant way," Jordan said. "Couple that with what I think is our superior ground game and, even if Kerry is tied in polls, it's absolutely possible he takes every one" of the tossup states.

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no chance in hell is it going to be a bush victory...

you're just not paranoid enough.

Kerry can get every single vote in California, NY and Mass. and as long as Bush can squeak by with a narrow margin in enough small states he can still get the electoral vote. Which is sort of what I'm expecting: Florida2000 X 10

linda, arguing against the Electoral College since 1968

PS: just send in my absentee ballot. Of course I voted correctly!

so bad i can taste it.