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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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To: vooch
Maine NH RI NY NJ

Don't know enough about Maine to comment...and I'll give you New Hampshire.NY and NJ? Very hard to believe.And as for RI see Post #35.

Yes,I think Trump has a damn good shot at taking this...but we gotta have realistic expectations.

41 posted on 09/18/2016 10:17:52 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Proud Member Of The "Basket Of Deplorables")
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To: sheana
She’s wasting tons of money in California. An ad every 30 minutes.

Interesting.Any chance that those ads are aimed at Nevada and/or Arizona?

42 posted on 09/18/2016 10:21:54 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Proud Member Of The "Basket Of Deplorables")
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To: goldstategop

Even if it’s a PAC supporting her why the hell waste money in a state like California already in the bag. I doubt the Clintons are worried about California. I think they’re more worried about turnout for the down the ballot congressional and state candidates.


43 posted on 09/18/2016 10:27:39 AM PDT by dowcaet (.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

“RI and MA are in play

“Hillary’s support there is in the single digits.”

There is no state where Clinton’s support is in the single digits.


44 posted on 09/18/2016 10:37:28 AM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: Steelfish

The best analogy I can think of for this campaign is the Dems and the media are about to get a blindside hit like an NFL QB getting nailed by an unblocked DE, and will be knocked senseless by the result. The people in the know in the Democrat Party know they’re in trouble, deep trouble. They sense there is a monster vote out there for Trump, but they just don’t know how large it is and that’s what scares the hell out of them.


45 posted on 09/18/2016 10:37:45 AM PDT by dowcaet (.)
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To: Gay State Conservative
Reno, Las Vegas and Phoenix have own TV stations. Wasting money by advertising in California. Maybe payback to stars and techies who gave her money to waste.
46 posted on 09/18/2016 10:41:56 AM PDT by Kozy (new age haruspex)
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To: sheana

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

Hillary’s California TV ads are not aimed at getting votes, they are aimed at raising money.


47 posted on 09/18/2016 10:52:54 AM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: Steelfish

Is Dan Balls still alive?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Balz

He looks worse than Hillary!


48 posted on 09/18/2016 11:08:31 AM PDT by cgbg (Warning: This post has not been fact-checked by the Democratic National Committee.)
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To: spokeshave

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

Did the child ask HILLARY if she remembered “LITTLE DEBBIE’S?”


49 posted on 09/18/2016 11:26:03 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: nhwingut
Whoever wins Ohio and Florida is almost assured to win the presidency.

Be nice to pick off Pennsylvania.

50 posted on 09/18/2016 11:26:14 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Everywhere is freaks and hairies Dykes and fairies, tell me where is sanity?)
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To: Navin Johnson

There’s a great deal of truth in what you post. The same can be said for the political consultant and pundit classes. This the high season where they make their living for the next two years. Trump has dampened their expected revenues.


51 posted on 09/18/2016 11:35:03 AM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V):)
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To: Gay State Conservative
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.

Always wondered why the 'Live Free or Die' state went lib in elections. It just means that Everyone in the rest of the state needs to vote! Tip the balance!

New Hampshire for Trump!! Live Free or Die!

52 posted on 09/18/2016 11:40:55 AM PDT by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: Art in Idaho
Always wondered why the 'Live Free or Die' state went lib in elections.

New Hampshire's funny.It's one of the lowest taxed states in the country (no income tax *or* sales tax).And it's my understanding that it's one of the fastest growing states.Many of the people who've moved to the state have been from Massachusetts and are drawn largely by the low taxes.But many of them continue their filthy voting for DC offices while demanding that state candidates take the famous (famous in NH that is) "no income or sales tax" pledge,a pledge that just about every candidate,including Rats,take.

53 posted on 09/18/2016 11:54:18 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Proud Member Of The "Basket Of Deplorables")
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To: Gay State Conservative

Interesting. Thanks for posting. With no state income tax and no sales tax, how do they fund basic ‘stuff’, schools, roads, state university, police, etc. A lesson to be learned for other states?


54 posted on 09/18/2016 11:58:51 AM PDT by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

No. these ads are in the heart of California.


55 posted on 09/18/2016 1:20:59 PM PDT by sheana
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To: Art in Idaho

NH has high property taxes, but most of those taxes are spent at the local level. 9% meals tax & NH owns all the state liquor stores so they get a lot of tax money from tourists. NH has a very lean government. Not many state workers & they get by. They also have no in-state estate tax or ANY capital gains taxes which makes the job they do running the state on the cheap remarkable.


56 posted on 09/18/2016 2:44:41 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: LongWayHome
NH has high property taxes, but most of those taxes are spent at the local level. 9% meals tax & NH owns all the state liquor stores so they get a lot of tax money from tourists. NH has a very lean government. Not many state workers & they get by. They also have no in-state estate tax or ANY capital gains taxes which makes the job they do running the state on the cheap remarkable.

Looks like a lesson all the states need to look at. Or better yet, all the citizens of each state need to have their state look at the 'New Hampshire model' of state and local government finances. Very lean government sounds good to me and I suspect, most Americans. Now if all the states did this, then let the marches begin to 'lean' the US Federal Government. Lean = less taxes all around.

Then throw in an Article V convention to rein in the Federal behemoth.

57 posted on 09/18/2016 4:57:11 PM PDT by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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