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There’s an alternative electoral map floating around, one that has Obama even farther ahead of McCain.

The National Association of Student Councils (NASC) held a mock election during its 2008 National Conference in June 2008. (Sponsored by the National Association of Secondary School Principals, NASC promotes student leadership in middle and high schools across the country.)

Here are the results of that election:

The candidates were tied in the green states. The purple states did not participate. (They do not represent victory by some insurgent third party--Nader and Barr presumably did not win, place or show in this contest.)

According to NASC:

Student delegates voting in the NASC Mock Election selected Senator Barack Obama as president. In a state-by-state breakdown, NASC matched the national election results in twenty-seven (27) states.

The maps below show the comparisons of the NASC and National Election Results as of Nov. 5, 2008. (National Election results source: www.cnn.com)