Posted by
Always To The Right on Sunday, November 02, 2008 4:17:20 PM
Answer: Pretty soon, potentially. Via CNN, a rundown of when the polls in various battleground states close (all times ET):
7 p.m. Indiana, Virginia
7:30 p.m. Ohio, North Carolina
8 p.m. Pennsylvania, Florida, Missouri
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9 p.m. Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, North Dakota
10 p.m. Nevada, Montana
I didn’t include Iowa because it’s not a battleground anymore, assuming it ever was, but that’s also a 10 p.m. close for what it’s worth.
The line is there because none of the states below it matter much
unless Maverick’s come close to running the table in the states above
it. Play around with CNN’s electoral map
and you’ll see what I mean. Give him every last state from 9 p.m. on,
then try to figure out how many pre-9 p.m. states he can lose and still
reach 270. Unless I missed something, it boils down to this