if you take ohio out of the republican column, john heilemann, no republican s ever won the white house without winning ohio. things become much more difficult. if you lose ohio as mitt romney, you ve got to win virginia, new hampshire, colorado, you ve got to win nevada. you ve got to run the board, basically. well, remember, go back to what karl rove said at the beginning of the general election, which was this 3, 2, 1 concept, that romney had to win back big states that obama had won. he had to win back florida, had to win back north carolina, had to win back virginia, had to win ohio, and even if he had did all of that, he still had to pick up something else. he had to pick up new hampshire or iowa. so if you take out ohio and then you look at how he s running in virginia and you have to be super generous and say he comes back and takes florida, any one of those states makes it really, really, really hard. you can imagine a map without ohio on it for mitt romney, but you re doing