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As Trump Rises In Battleground States, Clinton Moves To Block His Path To 270
Washington Post ^ | September 17, 2016 | Philip Rucker and Dan Balz

Posted on 09/18/2016 9:30:33 AM PDT by Steelfish

As Trump Rises In Battleground States, Clinton Moves To Block His Path To 270

By Philip Rucker and Dan Balz September 17 EXETER, N.H. — Tiny New Hampshire has just four votes in the electoral college, but Tim Kaine was back here for his third visit in five weeks. At back-to-back campaign appearances, Hillary Clinton’s running mate offered a blunt reason for why.

“This race is close,” the senator from Virginia said at a rally Thursday in this picturesque New England town. “I would rather be us right now than them. I think we have a more straightforward path to win and they have a more complicated path. But [there is] nothing to take for granted because, let’s be honest, it’s been a season of surprises.”

To many Democrats, the biggest surprise is that Donald Trump has mounted a comeback. Despite being battered all summer by his own missteps as well as a barrage of attack ads from Clinton, the Republican nominee has been surging in the battleground states.

Public polls over the past week show Trump leading Clinton in Ohio, Florida and Iowa; moving into a virtual tie with her in Nevada and North Carolina; and cutting into what had been comfortable Clinton leads in New Hampshire as well as in Colorado, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

Clinton’s return to the campaign trail after her highly publicized bout with pneumonia came at what has turned out to be the low point for her of the general election. She is laboring to regain solid footing before the first of three debates, on Sept. 26.

It is too early to know whether the episode will be a turning point that reverses gains for him in many of the battleground states.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado; US: Florida; US: North Carolina; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: electoralmap
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1 posted on 09/18/2016 9:30:33 AM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

Marching right in there with her best pantsuit on I bet. Give me strength with these clowns who write this sort of stuff.


2 posted on 09/18/2016 9:32:51 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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To: Steelfish
let’s be honest, it’s been a season of surprises

Uh, yeah for example, your Mistress collapsing like a sack of potatoes. Timmay just wrote the next Trump ad: "We can't afford more surprises"

3 posted on 09/18/2016 9:34:38 AM PDT by scottinoc
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To: Steelfish
The Former Twelfth Lady is running ads on local Boston TV and radio like crazy.No,Massachusetts,Rhode Island and Connecticut aren't in play...but New Hampshire is.And the most heavily populated part of the state is basically a suburb of Boston and watch and listen to Boston outlets.
4 posted on 09/18/2016 9:35:45 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Proud Member Of The "Basket Of Deplorables")
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To: Steelfish

Nice spin.


5 posted on 09/18/2016 9:36:26 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Steelfish

Even with her fat ass Cankles can’t “block” Trump.


6 posted on 09/18/2016 9:37:55 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Steelfish
It's time for Hitlery to go rogue.

She needs to send her body double out there and campaign for her.

She's much more likeable.

7 posted on 09/18/2016 9:38:27 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Steelfish

Trump is playing chess....maybe even three D chess

Hillary might be playing checkers


8 posted on 09/18/2016 9:38:47 AM PDT by Nifster (Ignore all polls. Get Out The Vote)
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. "I think we have a more straightforward path to win and they have a more complicated path."

Straight forward as in steal the elections. That is waaay more easy than campaigning and debates.

9 posted on 09/18/2016 9:40:42 AM PDT by BipolarBob (My Maserati does 185.)
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To: Steelfish

She was measuring the drapes a couple weeks ago. From the same Washington Post. LOL!


10 posted on 09/18/2016 9:42:21 AM PDT by nhwingut (Trump-Pence 2016 - Blow Up The GOPe)
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To: Steelfish
"Block his path"

She's got a legion of fresh voters to do just that.

11 posted on 09/18/2016 9:44:01 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy ("We will not tolerate those who are intolerant to the intolerant.")
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To: Steelfish

Washington Post is in meltdown mode today.

Love it! Trump is rising in the polls, so the WaPost’s Hillary Concern Trolls are coming out of the woodwork.

Hillary is done.


12 posted on 09/18/2016 9:44:40 AM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: BipolarBob

I love how the media says Trump “has to win Ohio and Florida” as if Hillary can breeze by with losses in both states.

Whoever wins Ohio and Florida is almost assured to win the presidency.


13 posted on 09/18/2016 9:45:06 AM PDT by nhwingut (Trump-Pence 2016 - Blow Up The GOPe)
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To: Steelfish

Buying off the electoral votes to win for her...


14 posted on 09/18/2016 9:46:23 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence 100%)
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To: Gay State Conservative

She’s wasting tons of money in California. An ad every 30 minutes.


15 posted on 09/18/2016 9:46:31 AM PDT by sheana
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To: Gay State Conservative

CT, RI and MA are in play.

Hillary’s support there is in the single digits.

She has to run ads in a Blue State 50 days out from the election?

Hillary is done.


16 posted on 09/18/2016 9:46:33 AM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: sheana

Good question.

CA is supposed to be a lock for her. Why run ads there at all?


17 posted on 09/18/2016 9:48:04 AM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: Texas Eagle
She needs to send her body double out there and campaign for her.

Was there a momentary electrical "brown out" in NY on 9/11 afternoon...?

The lady doing hugs with the child at that time was Hillary just come back from 30 years ago for a short visit.

18 posted on 09/18/2016 9:48:04 AM PDT by spokeshave (In the Thatch Weave,..Trump's Wing Man is Truth.)
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To: Steelfish

“But [there is] nothing to take for granted because, let’s be honest, it’s been a season of surprises.”

That’s a “tell”.

They’re losing, and they know it.


19 posted on 09/18/2016 9:48:17 AM PDT by JPJones (George Washington's Tariffs were Patriotic. Build a Wall and Build a Wall of tariffs.)
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To: Steelfish

Both sides are competing in blue states. Not a good sign for Hillary.


20 posted on 09/18/2016 9:48:26 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters ("Immigration Reform" is ballot stuffing)
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