Through springtime, the GOPNation.com will look at the shifting winds in the 2008 presidential election campaign by analyzing the swing states that include Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and Wisconsin. These 18 states total 215 electoral votes.
Note: Barring [...]

McCain 285; Obama 242; Ties: 11;
Needed to win: 270
Changes since 2004: Dems pickup CO, IA, NM
GOP pickup MI, NH, WI
CHANGES SINCE LAST SURVEY: None, however, new survey polls from Florida and Virginia show that John McCain continues leading Barack Obama in these must-win states for the GOP.
Source: Electoral-Vote.com
Note: In addition to posting Rasmussen’s latest [...]

Plagued by a defection of Clinton supporters and white working class voters, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, the leading Democratic presidential contender, trails Arizona Sen. John McCain, the likely Republican candidate, in Florida and Ohio, according to simultaneous Quinnipiac University Swing State polls released today. Sen. Obama is six points ahead in Pennsylvania. [...]

By Robert Novak
WASHINGTON, D.C. — When one of the Democratic Party’s most astute strategists this week criticized John McCain for attacking Barack Obama’s desire to engage Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, I asked what the Republican presidential candidate ought to talk about in this campaign. “Health care and the economy,” he replied. That is a sure [...]

Editor’s Note:  It is obvious from this write-up that Recount will be anti-Bush, anti-Red State and of course, pro-Blue.    Consider these two quotes:

“We’re eight years into a presidency that’s taken a direction we will be paying for and suffering from for a long time,” says Kevin Spacey, who plays Recount’s Ron Klain, the Gore operative [...]