Tom Elia makes a striking observation:
Of Sen. Obama’s 711,000 popular-vote lead, 650,000 — or more than 90% of the total margin— comes from Sen. Obama’s home state of Illinois, with 429,000 of that lead coming from his home base of Cook County.
That margin in Cook County represents almost 60%of Obama’s total lead nationwide.
Interestingly, Sen. Obama’s 429,000-vote margin in Cook County alone is larger than the winning margin of either candidate in any state.
(Via Instapundit.)
I’ll come out and say what neither Elia or Reynolds wants to say, but everyone is thinking. This is Chicago; is there any good reason to believe those votes are real? Does Obama even have a significant lead at all?
This underscores another aspect of the wisdom of our Founding Fathers in establishing the Electoral College. With the College in place, a single corrupt city can steal only one state. Without it, one or two cities like Chicago or Seattle could steal the entire election.
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