Reversed home states

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

2008

Everything remains the same, except of...

In 1985, a Hawaii native named Barack Obama decided to settle in Phoenix, Arizona, where he started to work as a lawyer lecturer and comunity organizer. In 1996, he entered elective politics, having been elected to Arizona State Senate. In 2004, after failing a House of Representatives bid in 2000, he was elected in landslide to the United States Senate, defeating a joke Republican opponent.

Meanwhile, in the same 2004 state of Illinois, despite it's Democratic leanings, reelected Republican Senator John McCain to a fourth term with similarly huge margin. McCain, after retiring from the Navy, got married to some Illinois heiress and settled down here, becoming U.S. Representative (1983-1987) and the Senator in 1987, after winning an election, with one-term incumbent Alan Dixon surprisingly decided to retire.

Now it's 2008 and Senator Barack Obama (D-AZ) and John McCain (R-IL) are opposing each other for the Presidency.

Maps, please.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I have difficulties to see Arizona electing a so librul democrat.

Otherwise, just flip AZ to the dem column and give IL a 50% instead of 60% shade.

[Niemeyerite]

AZ goes democrat and indiana stays democrat. also, NC and OH coulf flip.

[albaleman]

[feeblepizza]

AZ and IN flips, and IL is a lot closer. Obama would probably only get about 60% in HI.

[Person Man]

AZ and IN flips, and IL is a lot closer. Obama would probably only get about 60% in HI.

Not a lot closer. I'm guessing if Obama wasn't from Illinois, he would have still gotten like 59% of the vote instead of 62%. I'm basing that on the fact that John Kerry got 55% in Illinois when he got 48% of the national vote. Obama got 53% of the national vote. Of course, this is predicated on the fact that I don't think Illinois's PVI is changing....it didn't change between 2000 and 2004.