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As Maine’s 2nd District Goes, So Goes the Nation?
Every presidential year after Labor Day, Maine’s 2nd District pops up on the national political radar as territory Republicans will put in play.
It happened again last week, when a Boston Globe/Colby College poll showed GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump carrying the district by 10 points.
Hillary Clinton Struggles to Gain Traction in Florida, Despite Spending
Hillary Clinton has vastly outspent Donald J. Trump on TV ads in Florida. Her 57 campaign offices dwarf Mr. Trump’s afterthought of a ground game. And Mr. Trump is deeply unpopular among Hispanics, who account for nearly one in five Florida voters.
Despite these advantages, Mrs. Clinton is struggling in the Sunshine State, unable to assemble the coalition that gave Barack Obama two victories here, and offering Mr. Trump a broad opening in a road to the White House that not long ago seemed closed to him.
Read More >>Polls darken for Democrats
Hillary Clinton’s once formidable lead over Donald Trump in national and battleground polls is evaporating.
Trump has pulled into the lead in Florida and Ohio, two crucial states where he has trailed Clinton for most of the race, and several states that once looked out of reach for Trump — Colorado and Virginia, among them — suddenly appear competitive.
Read More >>Clinton and Trump neck-and-neck in new national poll
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are in a virtual tie in a national poll released Thursday.
The CBS News/New York Times poll of likely voters found that the Democratic nominee is just 2 points ahead of Trump in a two-way matchup (46%-44%.) That difference is within the margin of error.
Read More >>Trump Gains on Clinton But Pulling Ahead Will Be a Daunting Task
Kellyanne Conway took over a struggling Trump campaign in late August and made a brazen prediction on CNBC: They would look back at the previous two weeks “and say, ‘Why in the world didn’t Hillary Clinton’s campaign totally put us away?’”
It took a few weeks longer than that for Trump to close the gap with the Democratic presidential nominee, who returned to the campaign trail on Thursday eager to move past visualizations of her stumbling and dizzy amid a health episode over the weekend.
Read More >>Why Florida is still in play for Trump
The nation’s biggest battleground state should have buried Donald Trump’s White House hopes.
With Florida’s booming Hispanic population, Trump’s harsh immigration rhetoric sounded like political suicide. In a state where TV ads drive the electorate, Trump penny-pinched on air time.
Read More >>Why the Republican Party isn’t worried about how many field offices it has
What incensed the people running the Republican Party’s field effort following an article I wrote last week is less that I disparaged the phrase “offices don’t vote, people do” and more that I suggested the party had a “weak” ground game. I can state that they took issue with that description because they told me so — and were then gracious enough to explain why they think I got it wrong.
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