Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

For the first time today, I saw a UK newspaper from Monday that had a map of how the voting was expected to go in each state. Romney had like 80% of these states with Obama the rest. I thought what, how can Obama win!!! Then I saw it was done by seats (or whatever you call it there) and states like California, New York and Illinois had a huge amount of these seats (California 55 I think) compared to say states like Montana (3 I think). Which leads me to think, that the key is to win in the really big states in terms of population and power and add a few others etc and you're guaranteed victory. Is the Presidential race as easy as I just described or not?