Then this all pretty much my current prediction, too (although again I think Obama will make several solid GOP states west of the Mississippi closer, but not close).
For purposes of predicting a winner this doesn't really matter much though, since none of those are really close enough to be interesting.
Of course. I only added that because "but that was among Dems" implied to me (wrongly) that he thought that Obama wouldn't perform any better in the region.
I think I totally agree with ag, though.
I kind of like analyzing even the non-competitive states, since the competitive states are typically so few.