As the 2008 campaign winds to close, the pundit class is weighing with their electoral vote calls. It’s bad news for John McCain when everyone is predicting a Barack Obama win and the Republicans give Obama bigger victory margins than the Democrats. Below are the predicted Electoral College votes for Obama (270 needed to win).<\/p>\n
Democrats:<\/strong> Republicans:<\/strong> Media<\/strong> If you exempt McCain campaign operatives and rightist pod-people like Hannity, O’Reilly and Limbaugh, there are few Republican advocates expressing much hope. Last week Fox News Executive VP John Moody pronounced<\/a> McCain’s campaign over. Even Rupert Murdoch predicted<\/a> a landslide victory for Obama way back in May.<\/p>\n Are Republicans in some sort of shock? What does it mean when uber-conservative George Will puts Obama in landslide territory and suggests a stronger outcome for Obama than Democratic icon James Carville? Maybe it doesn’t mean a thing. Most of these people are wrong more often that not, so we shouldn’t put too much emphasis on what they are saying today. Still, it will be interesting to store this for future reference to see how these predictions compare with the actual results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As the 2008 campaign winds to close, the pundit class is weighing with their electoral vote calls. It’s bad news for John McCain when everyone is predicting a Barack Obama win and the Republicans give Obama bigger victory margins than the Democrats. Below are the predicted Electoral College votes for Obama (270 needed to win). 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\nArianna Huffington: 318
\nPaul Begala: 325
\nHilary Rosen: 333
\nDonna Brazile: 343
\nEleanor Clift: 349
\nJames Carville: 365
\nDemocratic Average: 338.8<\/em><\/p>\n
\nAlex Castellanos: 318
\nMatthew Dowd: 338
\nEd Rollins: 352
\nGeorge Will: 378
\nRepublican Average: 346.5<\/em><\/p>\n
\nChris Cillizza, Washington Post: 312
\nCraig Crawford, Congressional Quarterly: 333
\nDavid Gergen, CNN: 338
\nMark Halperin, Time Magazine: 349
\nGeorge Stephanopoulos, ABC: 353
\nLarry Sabato, UVA: 364
\nMedia Average: 341.5<\/em><\/p>\n