Here’s the thing. I spent a lot of time working in a blue-collar subculture. So I’ve been a first hand witness on multiple occasions to kitchen and bar conversations about how the niggers over-ran this or that neighborhood and how they’re dumb and lazy and so on. Now, unless all of my 40-something contemporaries from back in the day are dead, then I know for a fact that there will be plenty of folks out there who won’t vote for Obama just because he’s black.

I don’t know how many is too many Jimmy. Do you?

Not only does Obama look pretty solid in just about all the states he needs to reach 270, he’s threatening in OH, FL, IN, MO, and NV. And VA and NC, which surprises me. If Obama takes most of those states (the yellow ones in the last map above), we’re in landslide territory, electorally speaking.

That leaves McCain with only Texas, Georgia, and a thin basketful of, let’s face it, twinkie states.

You should start adding Intrade to these state poll posts, while it isn’t polling it performed better than the Gallup poll the day before the 2004 election in actually predicting who would win, and gives an interesting methodology contrast with the pollsters.