Dan Spencer has been blogging at, and as, California Yankee since 2003. He lives in Connecticut and practices law in New York. Here he will discuss the politics of the Right.
CNN's inaugural electoral map of the 2008 general election favors McCain:
It is based on analysis from the CNN Political Unit and takes into account a number of factors, including polling, state voting trends, ad spending, candidate visits, and guidance from the campaigns and political strategists.
I think the five most critical states are Colorado, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. What do you think?
In the following video, Andrea Mitchell and Chuck Todd discuss a whole range of battleground states: