Sun Tzu offers no guidance for us for this kind of situation. This stuff is just plain crazy. I've been staring at these maps for a while now, and just have to smile and shake my head. Ruffini and others are doing a swell job of picking it apart, but as a matter of predicting where we go from here, the only unique comments I have are these:
-Normally after an election, you have books come out from a campaign or two arguing "if only it weren't for incident X or decision Y or missed opportunity Z, we would've won." In 2008, every single one of the GOP campaigns could write that book. They can be packaged together in a box set called "Squandered."
-I think if trends continue and absent a scandal implosion, it comes down to a three-way battle between Huckabee, McCain and Rudy in Florida, setting up a bizarre 2/5 slate. And if that's the case, a brokered convention is no longer a dream, but an actual likelihood. The GOP can't afford to go two months without a candidate, so someone's going to need to get the heavy hitters in a room and work this out prior to Minneapolis.