Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) holds important advantages in the states that decided recent presidential elections, despite the strong headwind Republicans face this November.

Shortly after the November election, I wrote an article titled, “McCain Beats Romney!” The article focused on initial reports showing that Mitt Romney received fewer votes in 2012 than John ...

Barack Obama and John McCain disagree about plenty of things. Iraq. ... McCain's Veep: It's All About the Map. Published Jul 25, 2008 at 3:20 PM EDT Updated Mar 18, 2010 at 6:08 PM EDT.

In 14 states that SurveyUSA polled in January and February, before Romney dropped out of the race, John McCain beat Barack Obama by an average of 33 points among evangelical voters. Romney, by ...

North Carolina alone, with fifteen votes, could do it, but until recently the state was a G.O.P. bastion, and it remains Romney’s best bet. Obama defeated John McCain there narrowly in 2008, but ...

Trying to expand an electoral map that most analysts think is more difficult than Obama’s, the Republican said he would visit the state on Sunday, the day after his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan ...

Interactive map: Mitt Romney scored a narrow Republican Primary victory in Ohio by winning many of the same counties that were the strength of President Obama's victory in the 2008 general election.

So, Mitt Romney beats John McCain, but he didn't beat BarackObama. But before liberals pound their chests and celebrate a spectacularvictory, there's additional interesting data from the near ...

Ann Romney is campaigning in Michigan, Bill Clinton in Minnesota. All these are states Barack Obama carried by 10 points or more in 2008. Why is the electoral map scrambled this year?

The Clinton-Trump Electoral Map Looks Almost Exactly Like the Obama-Romney Map. ... and almost none of the independents who voted for McCain in 2008 switched to Obama in 2012.

Romney faces that kind of threat only in Arizona and Montana, which have 14 electoral votes. Obama is still in a good position to win most or even all of these battlegrounds, but at the moment the ...

Even so, the 2012 map is a product of what Messina has been telling donors privately for months: Next year will be a lot more challenging for Obama than the 2008 general elections against John McCain.