2008: Romney vs. Bayh

[adam]

Bayh/Bayh

Romney's mormonism would secure the southwest. However his flip-flopping on virtually every issue would kill him in swing states as would his liberal record in a few conservative states.

[adam]

Bayh wins everywhere except the deep south, where it's close, Nebraska, and Western states with large mormon populations. The constitution party gets better than 5% of the vote, and breaks double digits in much of the south.

As big an idiot as Romney is, I don't think he (or any Republican for that matter) should have a problem securing anything in the "Dakota Column" (North/South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas).