Members of those two groups established several rebel principalities and the two strongest states of the south the Muslim-ruled Bahmani kingdom and the Hindu-ruled Vijayanagar empire.
Each candidate has far more votes in his strongest states than he needs to win the electoral votes in those states.
And although the region's two strongest states still pursue policies that dovetail with America's, they have grown unhelpfully estranged from each other.Other allies that once augmented American power by proxy have grown too weak to help.
If emerging economies remain resistant to an American recession and commodity prices stay strong, America's exporting regions will benefit.That fillip aside, several factors suggest that even America's strongest states face tougher times ahead.
There were races in twenty-two Obama states, and Republican candidates won in eleven of them, including in some of Obama's strongest states in 2012: Illinois, Massachusetts, and Maryland.
This path involves Mr. Romney winning all or nearly all of the delegates in his strongest states, while getting a decent minority of them in the states that he does not win; many of which tend to have more proportional delegate allocation rules.
