Reply #2: It is more important [View All]

Fo Kerry to win back those states where Bush won by a narrow margin in 2000 that surround the great lakes. Ohio, Pennsylvania, and others where Bush won by a bare handful of votes will be a better strategy than to try to beat Bush in the Shouth. All Kerry will need to do is hold onto every state that Gore won in 2000 and add Ohio, (which he has a better chance of doing than winning southern states.) and he can beat Bush. Bush did far better in the South in 2000 than Gore, yet Gore won the popular vote. It does not matter whether a candidate wins a state by 1 vote or 100,000 votes, the winner gets all of the electoral votes, so it is simply bertter for Kerry to focus on those states that have bigger reasons to vote against Bush for. And those are the industrialized states of the Midwest who have lost the greatest number of jobs due to outsourcing.