Posted on 09/18/2016 10:42:34 AM PDT by Helicondelta
Republican nominee for president Donald Trump opened up a five point lead with New Mexico and its five electoral votes, according to the 141 likely voters in the Reuters/Ipsos poll released Saturday.
Trump has the support of 43 percent of likely voters compared to 38 percent for his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the poll executed between Aug. 26 and Sept. 15.
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In 2012, President Barack Obama won New Mexico with 53 percent of the vote. Republican candidate W. Mitt Romney garnered 43 percent of the vote
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I just saw that the latest Reuters polls have Clinton ahead in Ohio and North Carolina. That’s BS!
Winning PA would be nice. But a combo of some of these other states would be fine too.
hell yeah. And there are a myriad ways to get to 270 without Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Trump is winning in so many states that we usually lose. People laugh at 4 or 5 electoral votes like they don’t count or add up. That’s not true. and unlike the Dixie Chicks i have reason to apologize for New York. Guys if it were up to Staten Island and Upstate New York we’d be red. I guess that’s a slight argument for Distributing the electoral votes but it might hurt us in the long run among Southern States. I will have my vote counted though. And we are going to win this election. New Jersey and Pennsylvania, just very difficult to win. I’m not saying we can’t, but I’m saying we shouldn’t depend on them
This could turn into a blowout.
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Blowout so big, it will make hurricanes jealous
I thought PA would be winnable, but from what I am hearing, probably not. He could win NH, CO, NM, and IA and garner a bunch of EV’s. I think VA has too many gubbermint workers now to win.
CNN and Fox are running out of polls to show Harpy still leading.
Pray America wakes
New Mexico would be a net pickup for the GOP from 2012.
From what I have read, Trump needs to keep it within 4 or 5 points so Toomey can win, which seems doable, but last poll I saw, Toomey was down and Trump was down by 8, but I don’t know if I can believe the poll...I think it was Emerson.
Not real sure about this one. I’d like to know more info about the demographics involved. The southern part of the state is R, and there’s loads of veterans, but most is death grip D.
If it works out, all the better.
Yep. Welcome to FR.
Yeah, that jumped out at me, too.
Yes. My dad grew up there. Many of the Hispanic families there date back to before the U.S. and Mexico, to when it was a colony of Spain.
-PJ
Yes, it's a big deal.
Electoral votes are zero-sum. Four votes go into Trump's column, four come out of Hillary's...an eight point swing.
It's even better than finding $20 in your jeans pocket. It indicates a shift is underway. Good stuff.
In NM, the Navajo Nation sends Republican Sharon Clahchischilliage to the state legislature. She previously did respectably running statewide for Sec of State in 2002 and beat an incumbent Dem for her House seat in 2012. The NM GOP would do well to run her again for statewide office.
See my post 13. I couldn’t agree with you MORE!!
Iowa, NM and a few others add up really fast to a 40 point swing, using your CORRECT math.
Adds to Trump, take away from hillary.
Vote Trump!
YUGE!!!
Thank you! :)
Not bad in a dark blue state.
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