Obama landslide, as it looks on Thursday following Election Day:
deep red Obama 10% margin or greater 290
medium red Obama, 5-9.9% margin 88
pale red Obama, margin under 5% 107
white too close to call 6
pale blue Republican under 5% 14
medium blue Republican 5-9.9% margin 22
deep blue Republican over 10% 4 Mississippi is still up for grabs. President Obama's barest win is Tennessee and his barest loss is Louisiana. President Obama had maxed out in much of America in 2008 and held on there; he gained enough in Colorado, Iowa, New Hampshire, and Virginia to go over 55% in each state. His gains are largely in places that he lost badly in 2008, where he picked up most of the voters that used to go reliably to southern moderates like Carter and Clinton. Kansas and Nebraska have shown that given a choice between a sane liberal and a right-wing nut, they go for the sane liberal as in 1964. Big GOP margins in some Western states have been severely eroded.
Obama had to win Florida by about 8% to have a shot at winning Texas because Texas is best described politically as Oklahoma grafted onto Florida. Obama lost Oklahoma, but he did win Florida by about 8%.
Utah is not an oversight; the GOP nominee was callow enough to say stupid things about the LDS Church, and Mormons have shown the Republican nominee the consequences of a "macaca" moment, which says much about the GOP nominee. That's only one state, but it is a big lesson.
This is a coast-to-coast, border-to-Gulf, border-to-border disaster for the GOP.
I concur with this one as an Obama loss in a landslide:
with the caveat that whether Obama wins or loses Michigan depends upon the African-American turnout. The Twin Cities and Milwaukee just don't have the black population that Greater Detroit has. Maine splits its electoral votes this time. Ignore the intensity of colors and the EV counts here.