On June 10, 2008, Joshua Micah Marshall predicted that Barack Obama would win Ohio:

As I and innumerable others have mentioned, the red states that seem genuinely ripe for flipping this year are Colorado and Virginia. Others are definitely possible. But those are the ones that might even be considered probable.

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Of course, there are a million different ways to divide up the electoral votes. But since I’m increasingly confident that Obama can actually win Ohio, this put me in a bullish state of mind.