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[quote=Anonymous]There are 538 total electoral votes.  You need 270 electoral votes to win the presidency.

Many of the larger states electorally are blue/democratic.  So democrats often need fewer states to win.  Many of the states with small electoral votes (especially in the mid-west and Rockies) vote red/republican.

The largest states based on the 2010 census (which will be used for the 2012 elections) are listed below.  You could theoretically get 270 votes from the top 11 states which tend to lean blue.   However, the chance that the largest two states (California and Texas) would ever vote the same way are about the same as the chance that Donald Trump would ever get elected to the White House.  Florida is a real toss up purple state.  Pennsylvania is traditionally blue, but polls have shown it to be much closer to even than it ever has been.

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California     55 votes   blue
Texas          38 votes         red
Florida        29 votes              purple
New  York      29 votes   blue
Illinois       20 votes   blue
Pennsylvania   20 votes              purple
Ohio           18 votes         red
Georgia        16 votes         red
Michigan       16 votes   blue
North Carolina 15 votes         red
New Jersey     14 votes   blue

blue =   134
red =     87
purple =  49
Total =  270
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