Fox News Calls Ohio For Obama As Rove Says McCain Needs Ohio To Win

Fox News called Ohio for Barack Obama while Karl Rove was in the middle of an electoral map analysis that said John McCain will have a nearly impossible road to victory without Ohio.

"If he loses Ohio," Rove said of McCain, "he goes from 286, which the Republicans carried in 2004, down to 266, and that puts him below the 270 threshold needed to win the White House. So he'd not only need to sweep the rest of these states which were won by the Republicns in 2004, he'd also need to pick up something as well."

"Guess what Karl," Brit Hume broke in, "I've just received word that the state of Ohio has gone for Barack Obama."

Watch, as Rove sketches out McCain's improbable last hope for a road to the White House, which goes through the solidly blue states of California, Oregon, Hawaii, and Michigan (he would need one of those to win the White House):

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Comments

[Pere]

HOPE prevails over FEAR & HATE


Yesssss America way to go!!!!!!!!! The longest 8 years of my life finally over- thank you thank you thank you YOU DID IT!!


Now let's put all this BS behind us and rebuild our country together. We have only won the first inning.

[AHydel]

McCain's got him just where he wants 'em!

[Mackmal1]

I thought Brit was going to have a nervous breakdown last night as Obama was picking up states....I love it..

[Shashi0224]

Thank you Ohio!!

Thank you AMERICA!! We're BACK!!

Intelligence, Compassion, Peace, Hope.........We're back!!

[WORRIEDinFLNOMORE]

Heyy...give it up for us down here in FL. We gave the keys to the house to the west coast just before 11pm when they called it. But great comeback nonetheless for Ohio & Florida.

[ljmoffice]

Proud Ohioan here...thanks Florida...that was the icing on the cake. Great Job everyone!

[Topfeeder]

I'm here in Jacksonville and proud as blue punch.
Props to all of us hard working and voting Floridians. We did it!

[brandon102]

I guess this is an example of Fox being "fair and balanced." "For McCain to win . . . McCain will have to . . . I guess this puts McCain in a spot . . . "

Odd, McCain doesn't seem to be running against anyone according to Fox, yet he's still losing!

Idiots.

And why is anyone still listening to Karl Rove. I think he's shown us all what he can do.

[urfree2speak]

The republicans are not chastened....yet, some are grudgingly so, amazingly, I keep hearing "Jimmie Carter" we cannot let these republicans that remain to get there breath........we have to totally finish this!

[straddling]

Joe the plumber (not) did not deliver. He used GOP, even though they thought they were using him...hahahaha

[HelenaHanbasquet]

Fellow Ohioans, allow me to express my sincere gratitude to everyone who voted for Barack Obama. You have shown the world that the majority of us are not rabid fundamentalists, as portrayed in countless McCain videos, but sensible, thoughtful, caring people. Thank you for restoring my pride in being an Ohioan.

PS: You folks in Putnam Co. are a severe disappointment to me. I was giving you credit for having more smarts than you have.

[boogiewoman]

Guess what Rove? We don't like you. BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I love this.

[ShinjiIkari]

There's a bumper sticker right there: "Guess what, Karl?"

Ah how the mighty have fallen.

[StanTheManic]

How bout:

I got your hanging chad right here, Karl

[Pacojam]

I guess Palin didn't help too much.

[Krikkit]

Did you see her face during McCain's concession speech? She was crying. Guess she really thought she was going to win. Guess her staff really did keep her away from the news leading up to election night. Buh-BYE, lady Alaska! Go back to hunting around in the woods.

[Daw8it]

Absolutely Priceless !!!

[Bigjonsey]

I guess the Zogby polls were wrong...

[ElGuapo70]

Wow. This is great! I mean seriously...I hate to gloat but damn! This is just too good!

[Bigjonsey]

Poor John McCain....He set out on an epic journey....Senator Clinton was there....And so was senator Obama....Ole Johnnie boy saw an opening...And thats when the Maverick came out...Causing him to make a bad decison....He made plenty of those through out this election...damn....Remember the Democratic Convention?? John McCain decided that before it started he was going to sike his little dogs over at FOX noise on senator Obama...Excuse me..President Elect Obama...YES WE CAN! Anyway..John McCain make a huge mistake....I mean ....a Maverick move... A move that would turn out to be his worse... Gov. Sarah Palin...OMG...First she was a pitbull with lipstick...Then she went ROUGE...But not before she became a diva...Her handlers were pulling their hair out trying to control McCain's creation....A Super Star...Like Aretha Franklin but with a bad attitude...Her voice... Her voice we will surely miss...Asta la vista ...Arrividerci ...See ya in 2012.....Oooooh Noooo!!!!

[lemonyashes]

I love that "then she (Palin) went ROUGE..." I think you meant Rogue but "ROUGE" is funner. Palin went ROUGE you know a hot-headed red-faced ROGUE. Oh, thank goodness we were spared a ROUGE ROGUE as our next VP.