Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110930:16:34:00
Folks may not actually think about. this race is all about 270. explain. >> 270 electoral votes, craig. that's what you need to win the election. not 50% or 50.1% of the popular vote. the question is what combination of states puts you over that 270 number. one of the advantages president obama has is there's a block of 18 states that have voted democrat in each of the last five elections. those states give you 242 electoral votes which gets you 90% of the way there. republicans, by contrast, have only 13 states that have been red the last five elections in a row and those only get the republi...
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