Numbers do not favor Kerry's bid; Democrat may have to carry most of North, Midwest and West to win the presidency.(PAGE ONE)

From: The Washington Times (Washington, DC) | Date: March 21, 2004 | Copyright information

Byline: Donald Lambro, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry will have to carry nearly three-fourths of the states in the North, Midwest and West to overcome President Bush's strength across most of the South, presidential campaign advisers said yesterday.

A state-by-state snapshot review of the preliminary electoral numbers shows that at this point in the campaign Mr. Bush continues to maintain his party's vaunted lock on most of the Old Confederacy, the border states and the western Plains states. Of the states in these regions, only three ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

Bush holds slight lead in battle for electoral votes; Hurdles remain for Kerry as he makes his case this week at the Democratic convention
; ...combined 128 electoral votes. Florida...Michigan and West Virginia are the toughest...Hampshire and West Virginia. Winning either Ohio's 20 electoral votes or Florida...Nevada and West Virginia have a combined 10 electoral votes, enough to...
Presidential race remains tight one: West Virginia still up for grabs as Bush, Kerry court voters
; ...combined 128 electoral votes. Florida...Michigan and West Virginia are the toughest...Hampshire and West Virginia. Winning either Ohio's 20 electoral votes or Florida...Nevada and West Virginia have a combined 10 electoral votes, enough to...
Electoral evaluation: Did W.Va. get value for electoral votes cast in 2000?
; ...elections, West Virginia's five electoral votes can weigh heavily...2004. Our five electoral votes, worth more...industry in West Virginia would surely...located in West Virginia. And besides, any gain West Virginia industry may...state ...
West Virginia's voters could decide Gore's fate
; ...success or failure in West Virginia. Both Gore, the Democratic...have both included West Virginia among the handful...close race," may visit West Virginia in an effort to rally...Cheney's third trip to West Virginia since the GOP convention...the necessary 270 ...
Kerry Thanks Illinois, Focuses on West Virginia.
; ...remarks here in West Virginia, though, he sent...dozens and dozens of electoral votes for Kerry or President...it is the five electoral votes of West Virginia that could produce...November. Why is West Virginia so important to...Gore had just won ...
West Virginia may be just a flyover state: ; Obama, McCain may not bother much with us
; ...especially considering West Virginia has twice as many...Rasmussen. Clearly, West Virginia is leaning toward...CNN will not put West Virginia in the "solid...trying to turn West Virginia from red to blue...to do to keep West Virginia? Only the ...
Tailoring Policy to Electoral Votes
; ...repository. Nevada had four electoral votes in 2000, and it went very...Nevada will have only five electoral votes next time around. Big states...was greeted with cheers in West Virginia, a normally Democratic state with five electoral votes that he carried last time. ...
ELECTORAL VOTES OF TOBACCO STATES ADD UP.(EDITORIAL)(Letter to the Editor)
; ...speak out against tobacco? I think not. Ohio has 21 electoral votes as opposed to Kentucky's eight. But what of other...or in part by a tobacco crop? Louisiana has nine electoral votes, North Carolina 14, South Carolina eight, Tennessee 11, Virginia 13, and West Virginia five. Sixty ...
President planning visit to Belle: Trip would be Bush's fifth to West Virginia
; ...vice chairman of the West Virginia Republican Party...visits, to winning West Virginia. We all know the importance of our five electoral votes putting him over that...economic development and West Virginia." A visit by Bush...
Abercrombie & Fitch: John Kerry can win by showing West Virginia he cares
; ...they might lose West Virginia's five electoral votes, they focused...my home state, West Virginia. I have some advice...the governor of West Virginia, demanded that...land than just West Virginia, have been exploited...The people of West ...