Karl Rove never graduated from University of Utah or University of Maryland, where he studied, but he’s been one of the most adept republican political advisors in recent history, from his consultation of Reagan to Dubya. After acting as Deputy Chief of Staff under Bush Junior, Rove began writing about the 2008 presidential election for Newsweek and keeping his own website. The website has featured a map designating predicted outcomes for each state, and in his most recent map update, Rove has predicted that Obama will achieve a landslide victory.

According to the Wall Street Journal:

On his Web site, Karl Rove has been tracking polling in all 50 states, classifying each one as red for John McCain, blue for Barack Obama or yellow for toss-up. But as of today, there are no more toss-ups: every state is assigned to either Obama or McCain, based on polling.

The result: a huge Obama win.

If his forecast were to come true, the Democrat would take 338 electoral votes — 68 more than needed to win. McCain would win 200.

His projections are hardly wild. Of the six Republican-leaning states that have been more fiercely contested in recent days, he gives Ohio, Florida and Virginia to Obama, but Missouri, Indiana and North Carolina to McCain. He allocates Pennsylvania, which McCain has been trying for, to Obama, as do most if not all other independent guessers working off public polls.

It’s not as though Rove is the only one to predict an Obama victory, but it must kill the man who said of Obama, “Even if you never met him, you know this guy. He's the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette that stands against the wall and makes snide comments about everyone." Tonight, Obama may be the guy at the country club with the beautiful wife, holding a martini and standing to make a victory speech to everyone.