But with one year to go before the 2012 election, a state-by-state examination of the battleground map suggests that the president still retains several plausible pathways to the 270 electoral ...

Barack Obama's Democratic presidential campaign could alter the electoral map that decides the White House. Virginia has been a traditionally red state, but Obama has been working hard to make it ...

While Obama may change the map by picking up New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada and Virginia, Sabato explains, McCain has a better-than-average shot at taking Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Oregon ...

Michigan's 16 Electoral Votes lean Democratic at the start, given the demographic breakdown and vote patterns even if Mr. Obama falls off a bit from his 2008 levels, but a strong push from Romney ...

President Obama carried the state in 2008, but a wave of home foreclosures and a sour economy has complicated his path to an easy victory.

The electoral map candidate Barack Obama remade in 2008 appears to be retreating into its familiar patterns. Obama broke the decisive role Ohio and Florida seemed to play in presidential elections ...

WASHINGTON - President Obama's post-convention "bounce" - combined with recent missteps by Republican rival Mitt Romney - has created an electoral map highly favorable to the Democratic president ...

By my count, the electoral map now puts the race almost dead even but leaning slightly toward Barack Obama, with 273 electoral votes in his column.

Obama now holds 317 electoral votes (see map below) to 157 for John McCain - Sarah Palin ticket, and 64 more votes remain in the tossup category.

Presumptive presidential candidates Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama both claim that they can redraw the electoral map this year by courting voters from the other party's traditional base ...

The polls show Barack Obama continuing to pull away from John McCain in the race for 270 electoral votes. Just in the week since my last check-in, all of the electoral maps that I follow have ...

Colorado President Obama’s victory in Colorado was among his most prized accomplishments in 2008, after the state had voted reliably Republican in eight of the last nine presidential elections.