"Take a look at the EV map on this site. What does that tell you? "
Nothing because it's missing one fact. Right now, they're asking the question, "If Clinton were to be the nominee tomorrow, who would you vote for?" The problem is that doesn't address the fact that to make her the nominee without doing any of the steps I suggest above, she'd have to win a bloody convention fight that would piss off large swaths of the Democratic electorate. Moreover, right now the Republicans are ignoring her while both Clinton and McCain are piling up on Obama. Neither of those would be true in November.
Look at her lead in the polls in those states, the ones that give her this electoral college victory. They're narrow. Clinton has a 1 point lead in Florida, a 3 point lead in Ohio, a 3 point lead in Washington, a 1 point lead in Oregon, a 1 point lead in Missouri. Any movement at all towards McCain, any softening at all towards Clinton and she'd be in huge trouble in a general.
Using your logic: Clinton is still holding narrow leads inspite of so much primary hatred towards her and character assasination by Obama campaign. Once she becomes the nominee, many will fall in place because they are "large swaths of the Democratic electorate". Will Obama come out and campaign for her? That will take care of the "large swaths of the Democratic electorate".
Psychological projection (or projection bias) is a defense mechanism in which one attributes one's own unacceptable or unwanted thoughts or/and emotions to others. Projection reduces anxiety by allowing the expression of the unwanted subconscious impulses/desires without letting the conscious mind recognize them. The theory was developed by Sigmund Freud and further refined by his daughter Anna Freud, and for this reason, it is sometimes referred to as "Freudian Projection".
