Let's give 'em Ohio

Okay, I think it is time to let Kerry have the entire 118,775 votes by which Bush purportedly won Ohio. It was just so close, the state had to be stolen. So Kerry gets those 20 electoral votes. But hold on, does that give Kerry the Presidency? In the spirit of fair play, I would suggest that the Democrats give Bush all the states where, by the same logic, Kerry must have stolen a state from Bush:

These would include the following "Blue" states with winning margins less than Ohio:

Minnesota with a 98,444 vote margin (10 electoral votes switched to Bush)
Wisconsin with a 11,813 vote margin (10 electoral votes switched to Bush)
Oregon with a 67,488 vote margin (7 electoral votes switched to Bush)
Hawaii with a 37,209 vote margin (4 electoral votes switched to Bush)
New Hampshire with a 9,171 vote margin (4 electoral votes switched to Bush)
Maine with a 65,046 vote margin (4 electoral votes switched to Bush)
and Delaware with a 28,356 vote margin (3 electoral votes switched to Bush)

So let's do the math:

Official '04 electoral college tally:

Bush 286
Kerry 252

Then:

Bush concedes Ohio to Kerry due to the close margin of victory:

Kerry 272
Bush 266

But then Kerry necessarily concedes those states he won by even a tighter margin than Bush won Ohio:

Bush 308
Kerry 230

But we don't even need to switch the electors in all the states with a tighter margin than Ohio. Another way to slice this is if we just say to Kerry, "okay, take Ohio's 118K votes and the 20 electors. In return we'll take no more than 118K combined votes from those states you "won."

So we take:

Wisconsin, Oregon, Delaware, and New Hampshire which garnered only a 116,828 margin of victory for Kerry between the four of them - 1,947 votes to spare!

Bush 290
Kerry 248

So let 'em win their argument. Ohio was stolen. Fine, by that logic, Kerry stole 7 states from Bush. So instead of Bush country encompasing 30 states, it apparently encompasses 36!