Obama's current electoral votes per Poblano are 269 (OH is at 50%, so give it to the Republicans due to the Diebold factor).

Current polls as aggregated by Poblano show Obama's path to victory as NM (which Obama currently has a 66% chance of winning) + NV (65%) + CO (68%) + MI (54%). This plus Obama's 157 electoral-vote base plus the Dem swing states (WA, OR, MN, NJ, IA, WI, PA --- together worth 81 electoral votes) adds up to 274 electoral votes.

Therefore, Obama should pick Richardson for VP.

The typographically-challenged Matthew Yglesias recognizes my genius.

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Each religion has helped mankind. Paganism increased in man the light of beauty, the largeness and height of his life, his aim at a many-sided perfection; Christianity gave him some vision of divine love and charity; Buddhism has shown him a noble way to be wiser, gentler, purer, Judaism and Islam how to be religiously faithful in action and zealously devoted to God; Hinduism has opened to him the largest and profoundest spiritual possibilities. A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.

--Sri Aurobindo, "Thoughts and Glimpses", 1915-17 in Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library, Volume 16 "The Supramental Manifestation and Other Writings" pages 347-364

Kind of weird how Aurobindo sees the Semitic religions Judaism and Islam as philosophically similar.