Via Ed Morrissey and CNN, it turns out that the current trneds point to a 40 state win for President Bush. Right now, according to CNN, Bush has 33 states and 301 electoral votes. But there’s this:

Kerry holds tenuous leads in six key states that Al Gore carried: Maine, Pennsylvania, Oregon, New Jersey, Michigan and Minnesota. Those states give Kerry a combined electoral tally of 73 electoral votes (Bush currently has one electoral vote in his column from Maine, which can split its votes between two candidates).

So the Bush total rises to 39 if Kerry loses these states. What’s the bonus state to get to 40? Minnesota, maybe. Here’s the map:

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