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SidDithers

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Sun Jun 19, 2016, 02:12 PM
Jun 2016

there are something like 19 states that have voted Democratic in each of the last 6 Presidential elections. I think the total of those 19 states is 242 EVs.

All Hillary would need to do is to pick up another 29 EVs to get to 271.

Florida has 29 EVs.

ETA: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/05/02/republicans-have-a-massive-electoral-map-problem-that-has-nothing-to-do-with-donald-trump/

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