The top fifteen states in population

1. California    (38 million)
2. Texas
3. New York
4. Florida
5. Illinois
6. Pennsylvania
7. Ohio
8. Michigan
9. Georgia
10. North Carolina
11. New Jersey
12. Virginia
13. Washington
14. Massachusetts
15. Indiana    (6 ½ million)


The four states in bold are the only big ones that Mitt Romney carried yesterday.  He was unsuccessful in the state where he had governed, as well as Michigan where his father had governed.

(In 2008, John McCain took two of the fifteen).


UPDATE: How about silk-stocking counties... who carried them?  CNBC has the answer.