Current Electoral Map & Obama’s first general campaign ad

This is the electoral map as it stands right now (click to enlarge):

(electoralvote.com)

Here’s the ad:

Here’s the funny part:

…[I]t’s on running on t.v. stations in 18 states: Alaska, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Virginia. Interesting combination.

Bush won fourteen of the states on that list — all except Michigan, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Those other fourteen have been red states — John McCain really, really needs to win all of them. This year, they’re all in play.

Haha, the Republicans are going to be blowing their money trying to hold “red” states. That’s funny in a schadenfreude kind of way.

(h/t Bob Cesca for lots of it)