blue. that means solid bam or leading obama and only 23 shy of victory if the map doesn t change from here on out. governor romney, a bit of a steeper hill but at 206 and needs 270 to win. if you look at the map, it looks much more competitive, much more like bush versus gore of 2000. now, advantage to the president, you would have to say all seven of these toss-up states, hamm, virginia, florida, iowa, colorado, and nevada, all seven carried by president obama last time. at least he has veterans on the ground that know how they work. if nothing else changes the president could win florida, just florida in the 29 electoral votes and that would get him across the line. what does governor romney has to do? he has to win florida and ohio, the two biggest prizes and put together the rest of the votes going state by state. we will spend a lot of time over the next 155 days going through these and dig deeper in a chess match and that s what this is of getting to 270 or blocking the
that happens to the track with the electoral college projection, the state by state race. a multi-million dollars campaign attacking mitt romney s record on the issue we all know will define the election. when mitt romney was governor, massachusetts lost 40,000 manufacturing jobs, a rate twice the national average and fell to 47th in job creation, fourth from the bottom. instead of hiring workers from his own state, romney outsourced call center jobs to india. he cut taxes for millionaires like himself while raising them on the middle class and left the state 2.6 billion deeper in debt. the new ad is airing in nine states including seven you see in yellow here. that s thes to-up yellow. here is the state of the race, the race to 270 electoral votes and 155 days out. it takes 270 to win. we have solid blue and light blue. that means solid bam or leading obama and only 23 shy of victory if the map doesn t change from here on out. governor romney, a bit of a steeper hill but