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

[Bigjonsey]

I said thanks But no thanks for Gov. Sarah Palin...

[blaquegenesis]

forget faux news. forget the drudge. the slide show i'm waiting on is "the view" tomorrow. how will the blonde handle it? that episode should be quite interesting. fold? or repug fight?

[EddieMcWords]

Epic Fail.

[serecovery]

Classic. Just classic. That should be on Funny or Die.

[hmmmmm]

anybody hear Brit at 11:00? Suddenly he was saying stuff like "once you meet B.O., he's such a nice guy, he couldn't possibly be a radical"

Nice try sucking up now. Where was that rationale a week ago.

[Grulg]

BILL---ORALLY!!! ONCE AGAIN-the WORST PERSON-IN THE WORLD!!!!

[TruthTrigger]

Good going Fox, keep it up! About time we got some fairness from Fox!

[KarateKid]

Read Karl Rove's prediction: 338-200. If Obama wins Nevada, but loses No. Carolina, and it's trending that way, he was exactly spot on. Scary.

Well, it's time to get back to the party, and to hear our President Elect.

[BeltwayInsider]

Hmmm... does this mean that, in order to maintain market share, that FOXNews will move (substantially?) Left?

I just cut this from the front page of the FOXNews web site:

URGENT: FOX News projects Illinois Sen. Barack Obama wins historic 2008 election, becoming America's first black president.

[deeppeace]

Of course not. They sharpen their claws during Democratic administrations.

[Peachstealth]

Fox has always been fair. you just don't realize it because everyone else sucks up to the left.

[darthdarcy]

Karl Rove has done more than any single American than to help bring this tremendous Democratic Victory to us tonight and for many years to come...ton­ight is a rejection of everything Karl Rove has ever stood for, or crawled on his belly for, to be more exact..

[Moxo]

I've been taking images from various web pages - I love the one from FoxNews with "President Obama" on it, but my favorite is the Drudgereport page - "Chosen" (in small letters) below a small picture oh a hand in a crowd with an Obama sign!

[peterperfect]

Drudge is hurting. HHHAHHAHAH­AHAHAAAAAA­A!!!!!!

[THE JEDI 69]

Rove one word of advice grab Joe the Plumbers belt loop and tie ya shirt in a bow..you be okay

[awcbuddy8]

Uh-oh. Huffpo going out of business now?

[thiswasplanned]

hahahahah yeah i was thinking that too

[Skoutt]

Thank you HuffPost for keeping me sane during the last several weeks!!

[Oonagh]

Grim faces on Fox.......­..........­..........­..........­.... Ob ama won.......­....