Electoral College Map 2012: Obama Holds On To 68-Vote Lead
Americans will elect their next president is only four days, and political pundits have kicked it into overdrive as they try to predict who will come out victorious on Election Day on Nov. 6.
Republican nominee Mitt Romney has the advantage in many nationwide presidential polls, but President Barack Obama is still ahead in the forecast for how the Electoral College will play out.
The Huffington Post's Electoral College map projection shows that a total of 259 electoral votes are leaning toward going Obama's way on Election Day. Romney lags behind by 68 votes with a total of 191 electoral votes expected to go Republican.
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Though those numbers put Obama firmly ahead of his GOP challenger, the president's lead has narrowed over the course of this week.
At the start of the week, on Monday, The Huffington Post's data analysis projected Obama had 277 electoral votes safely leaning his way, which would have been enough to send him over the edge of the 270-vote margin needed to win the presidency.
Another change since the beginning of the week has been the number of electoral votes that are still too close to predict whether they will go to one candidate or the other. On Monday, a total of 55 electoral votes were still in the toss-up category. That number grew to 77 by Wednesday, and as of Friday a total of 88 electoral votes are still too close to call.
The Huffington Post's data breaks down the states and their respective electoral votes as follows:
-Strong Obama: 217 electoral votes
-Leans Obama: 42 electoral votes
-Toss Up: 88 electoral votes
-Leans Romney: 0 electoral votes
-Strong Romney: 191 electoral votes
The Huffington Post's Electoral College map projection is based on analysis on various nationwide and state by state polls, but the forecast for how each electoral vote will go on Election Day is subject to change throughout the next week.
