Are there three critical swing states?

[angus]

20+21+27=68

anyone winning 68 electoral votes from the sunshine state, the keystone state, and the buckeye state will win the election.  For sure.  But the same candidate will not win all those, so the point is irrelevant.  

[angus]

I dont get all this talk on the boards that Virginia is somehow a swing state.  Granted I dont live there, but I have seen or heard nothing that indicates that is the case.

It isn't really, not with a Taxachusetts liberal at the top of the ticket.  Edwards could have won it though.  The only thing is, it's been trending Dem, but chances are it won't be in play until 2008.

That's unfair characterization.  I have held a drivers license in four states and voted in four.  Of those, MA had the lowest sales tax.  Of those which had state income tax, MA had the lowest.

[angus]

That's unfair characterization.  I have held a drivers license in four states and voted in four.

That must be one hell of a fast car to get through so many states in 1 day.

smartaleck.  seriously, you may not be aware that here in the USA the commonwealth of massachusetts has a number of inaccurate stereotypes associated with it.  The most frequently mentioned is its incredibly high taxes.  As an adult I have lived in many states, four of them long enough to bother to become an official resident (vote, DL, etc.) and MA had the lowest taxes.