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Think Hillary Clinton Will Win in a Landslide? Don’t Bet on It

Donald J. Trump, after weeks of self-inflicted damage, has seen support for his candidacy in national polls dip into the 30s — Barry Goldwater and Walter F. Mondale territory — while Hillary Clinton has extended her lead to double digits in several crucial swing states.

Time to declare a landslide, right? Not so fast.

Donald Trump has upended much of what we thought we knew about U.S. electoral politics. Maybe Republican voters aren’t as conservative as we thought. Maybe candidates can make seemingly crazy statements without harming their prospects. Those were both lessons we learned from the Republican primaries. But the general election has gone more according to script, and Trump hasn’t upended that most basic feature of general elections, the map.

5 takeaways from Clinton’s and Trump’s finance reports

When it comes to campaign spending, Hillary Clinton is the 1 percent, and Donald Trump is a blue-collar candidate.

The Democratic nominee has raised $327 million and spent $268 million since launching her campaign.

Trump, GOP see gold in Clinton Foundation attacks

Republican strategists believe attacking Hillary Clinton over her family’s charitable foundation is the best way for Donald Trump to turn around his underperforming campaign.

Trump and his allies have made the potential for corruption posed by the Clinton Foundation the basis for an all-out assault on the Democratic nominee this week to drive up her unfavorable ratings in key swing states.

Clinton opens campaign HQ in Utah

Hillary Clinton is setting up shop in once-hostile territory, threatening to mount a renewed push for deep-red Utah, a state no Democrat has won in the past half-century.

The Clinton campaign announced Monday the opening of their first general election office in Salt Lake City, bolstering a recent effort by the Democratic nominee to build support among Utah’s religious community.

The phrase “drip, drip, drip” may be one of the most overused of this election cycle, but that’s exactly what the last few days of headlines for Hillary Clinton felt like, once again. Critics of the Clinton Foundation got more fuel for the fire today when a handful of newly released emails showed that top donors to the organization appeared to get expedited access to Clinton through top aide Huma Abedin.

Hillary Clinton has opened up a double-digit lead in the key battleground state of Virginia, 55-36, after the two candidates were tied back in May.

The poll by Roanoke College said that in a four-way matchup, Clinton still dominates the Republican nominee by 16 points, 48-32. Libertarian Gary Johnson won 8 percent of likely voters, Green Party candidate Jill Stein had 3 percent and 9 percent remain undecided.