The Magic Number is 270

In the Electoral College, that is.

Now, there's a place on the web where you can manipulate a map of the good ol' USofA to assign the electoral votes of each state to one candidate or another.

http://www.270towin.com/

Check it out for yourself, if you dare.

I played with most recent poll figures, and came up with some bad news for John McCain.

If things follow those numbers, he will lose to the junior senator from Illinois by a count of 331 to 207.

But, a lot can happen between now and November, right?!