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Utah Is 2016’s Strangest Swing State
Here’s some unlikely math: Say every state in the U.S. that’s even somewhat contested goes to Donald Trump in November. Say he wins Ohio and Florida and manages to hang onto potential southern defectors like North Carolina and Georgia. Only in that case, on Trump’s best possible Election Day, would Utah’s four Electoral College votes determine the outcome of the 2016 presidential race.
Read More >>Breaking down Pennsylvania: The battle in a battleground state
The Democrats have won the presidential contest in Pennsylvania over the past six elections. Other than President Barack Obama’s victory in 2008, the elections have been rather close; none of the other Democratic candidates received more than 52 percent of the vote. In 2012, the state was the sixth closest popular-vote state in the presidential contest.
Read More >>Clinton Holds Steady Against Trump as Campaign Enters Final Weeks: Poll
Hillary Clinton’s national lead over Donald Trump remains steady at 6 points, according to the latest NBC News|SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll.
Clinton currently enjoys 48 percent support while Trump maintains 42 percent — the same margin as last week. The latest NBC News|SurveyMonkey poll was conducted online from August 29 through September 4 among registered voters.
Read More >>Poll: Nine weeks out, a near even race
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton start the race to November 8 on essentially even ground, with Trump edging Clinton by a scant two points among likely voters, and the contest sparking sharp divisions along demographic lines in a new CNN/ORC Poll.
Labor Day Reset: Down the Stretch With Clinton and Trump
As recently as a generation ago, presidential general elections were thought to begin on Labor Day. That was back when August was a political dead zone, of course, with most Americans on news-free (and pre-cable) vacations, the tiny media elites all on retreat in the Hamptons or Martha’s Vineyard, and the campaigns and their auxiliaries marshaling their resources for the homestretch.
Read More >>Clinton, Trump Zero In on Battleground States That Will Decide Election
With the start of the intensified, two-month sprint to Election Day, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump expanded their availability to the news media as they zeroed in on the states and groups of voters they need to claim victory on Nov. 8.
The two candidates crossed paths at Cleveland’s Hopkins International Airport at the start of the day Monday, illustrating the narrow focus of both campaigns on Ohio and about seven other battleground states that will decide the election.
Read More >>Inside Trump Tower: Facing grim reality
The plan to get to 270 electoral votes remains unclear. The battleground state deployment plan is a work in progress. Money from big donors is slowing to a trickle. And aides are confused about who’s calling the shots.
Donald Trump’s campaign is teetering, threatening to collapse under the weight of a candidate whose personality outweighs his political skill. And now, with 22 days until the start of early voting, the GOP nominee is running short on his most precious commodity: time.
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