Georgia

Outlook: Likely Republican

15 Electoral Votes (15 in 2000)
Bush won in 2004 by 16.6%

Georgia is a very Republican state: both Senators, the governor, both chambers of the state Legislature, and a majority of its congressmen is Republican. The Peach State went to George W. Bush by double-digit margins in both 2000 and 2004. So what could possibly make Georgia competitive? Barack Obama dominated its Democratic primary and a combination of a very high-turnout among African-Americans and Bob Barr’s (formerly a Republican Congressman from Georgia) Libertarian candidacy could put the state’s 15 electoral votes within reach of Obama. If Obama did somehow manage to snatch them up, it would be the first time the state has gone Blue since it was one of Jimmy Carter’s few wins in 1980 against Ronald Reagan.