There was a time when Hillary Clinton’s team believed she would win every swing state, many by double digits.
That time has passed.
According to today’s Washington Post, the Clinton team is now “pessimistic” about holding Iowa and Ohio, and they believe Florida and North Carolina will be close. Right now, the latest polls have Donald Trump ahead in all four states. If he were to win those four states, as well as Nevada, he would be one state away from winning the presidency.
Here are the remaining battleground states and where they stand:
Pennsylvania. There’s been a fair bit of talk about Pennsylvania moving into Trump’s column due to its heavy white working class population, but there’s no evidence in the polls for that – the latest poll from Morning Consult has Clinton up nine points there, for a RealClearPolitics average spread of 6.6 points. Trump’s better off focusing his resources elsewhere.
Colorado. Hillary thought she had Colorado in the bag as late as three weeks ago – Trump had no ground game to speak of, and Colorado Republicans were tepid about Trump. But an Emerson poll taken after Hillary’s physical collapse last week put Trump up four there; another poll put Trump up two. If Trump takes Colorado’s 9 electoral votes, he’s president.
Wisconsin. Wisconsin hasn’t gone Republican since 1984. And Hillary had taken the state for granted for months. But a late August poll showed Clinton up just three points there, and we haven’t seen any polls in the state since Hillary’s health scare and her “deplorables” comment.
Virginia. Virginia, too, was thought to be in Hillary’s win column, but three polls in the last three weeks have shown the race within three points. Hillary had reportedly withdrawn resources from the state, assured that Trump could not compete in the purple state that is rapidly shifting blue – or was, until Hillary ran. Hillary’s VP pick, Tim Kaine, clearly hasn’t locked up the state quite yet.
New Hampshire. New Hampshire’s another state Hillary thought was done. But an NBC poll from just before Hillary fell over put her up just two points. That obviously didn’t take into account her terrible last week and a half.
Michigan. Michigan, too, was thought out of reach by Hillary’s people. She had a solid and consistent lead of between 5 and 7 points…until her health scare, when the lead plummeted to three. And Trump has been campaigning heavily in Michigan, particularly on the economy.
Trump’s roughest road here is through Pennsylvania, but if this race remains close, Hillary has to run the table in order to maintain the White House. So much for the theory that Hillary’s supposed stability would prevent Trump from gaining the Oval Office. She remains a horror show candidate, and the polls reflect that.
no surprise there… the same family that funded the nazis in WWII(prescott bush), the guy who was in the CIA since before Kennedy assasination, the guy who probably pulled the strings on pollards incarceration as he could blackmail the other presidents with the CIA files; the guy that supports the elites program of firing american workers; the guy in power behind reagan at the start of shipping the jobs out to china and controlled the agenda through his CIA blackmail files throughout the last 30 years… the arabist and Israel hater.
the family around through both WTT attacks who had the power through the CIA to create false flags….. no president under his blackmail files could argue with him.
Trumps puts a crimp in his agenda.
khan, like pres hussein wants us to embrace the religion of peace
AlisonH Said:
that’s what i was saying, that was part of the joke
Respectfully, Mr Ross, Londinistan elected a mayor named Khan and there are very few real English Londoners left there anymore.
I have refrained from commenting on polls lately because as I said prior it is my belief that most polls are bought early on, just like the media(which we already know here)…. however, it is also my belief that in order for the pollsters to maintain an air of credibility as not being manipulated….. they start adjusting their polls to reality as the election nears so everyone will forget next time and they appear credible.
Do folks really beleive that those who are able to so transparently control the media like puppets would not also control the polls? The only question is how do they do it and how do they remain credible in the public eye.
But then the american memory is so short as CNN had the audacity to compare Trump with Saddam censoring news when it was CNN caught in the scandal of manipulating news in order to keep on saddams good side in the gulf war. I saw no mention of that “cognitive dissonance”.
Michigan?
you would think that after Bill’s suggestion to populate Detroit with muslim refugees to “revitalize” the city that the blacks there would wake up.
But then who could be dumber than those Jews voting for the leftists and muslims who have been attacking their children in school and who ONLY vote for the dem party. There are no GOP voters who have been attacking jewish children in schools in the past 8 years on an increasing scale and enabled by the democratic party administration in power.
but who could have believed that the american voter would be so dumb as to elect a guy named hussein to be their president after 911?
Kind of like the english electing a guy named khan to protect them from the muslim flood… or….
the chickens electing the fox to run the hen house
BWAAAHAHAHHAHAHHAH