From Chris Cillizza at the Post:
On our latest Fix electoral map, we have Obama at 349 electoral votes -- his highest total since we began picking the playing field earlier this fall -- while McCain stands at 189 electoral votes.As always, I'll give the usual caveat. They're losing, big time. But they can steal it. Don't let them. We need massive turnout in order to guarantee that we have enough of a margin of victory to stop them from stealing the key states they need. Also, we have lots of congressional races that matter, including getting enough additional Senate seats so that we can kick Joe Lieberman to the curb. And finally, as Joe Sudbay and Markos have both said, we don't just need to win - we need to utterly crush and destroy the Republicans in this election. We need to send a clear message that our country has had enough of these bozos. Palin is already planning to read her head in 2012 - we need to put a stop to that now.
And, it's uniquely possible that Obama could crest 350 electoral votes before all is said and done next Tuesday. The hardest three states for us to pick -- Missouri, Indiana and Nevada -- were all carried by President George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004. (In the case of Indiana, the Republican presidential nominee has carried the state in every election but one -- 1964 -- since 1936.)
.... Much can change in eight days -- especially when so many people are paying so much attention. But, since late September Obama has consolidated his electoral gains and looked hungry for more. There is little indication in any polling we've seen that any major change agent is on the horizon that would disrupt that pattern.
