Hillary Clinton Makes Pitch for Mandate and a Swing-State Sweep

Hillary Clinton entered the final phase of her campaign on Friday, working to ensure a victory that is decisive enough to earn a mandate for her presidency and a surge of voters to help Democrats win congressional races.

Emerging from a nine-day absence from the trail, Mrs. Clinton seized on the momentum of her performance in the final presidential debate, choosing Ohio — a battleground state where she has struggled the most against Donald J. Trump — as her first stop on a four-day swing. With new polls showing Mrs. Clinton closing in on Mr. Trump in the state, her campaign is glimpsing the opportunity for a clean sweep of traditional swing states.

I broke down and gave the NYT a click (oh well).

Anyway, the article reads like a Clinton campaign press release— anyone notice? Uniformly pro-Clinton, uniformly anti-Trump. No mention of wikileaks or latest JW FOIA news against Hillary. Lots of anti-Trump, pro Hillary adjective spin. IMHO the editors are obviously in the tank for Hillary or at the spin adjectives would have been removed.

The suffolk university poll

http://www.suffolk.edu/news/67777.php#.WAvPysms5hZ

Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump are now tied at 45 percent in Ohio, according to a Suffolk University poll of likely voters conducted just before the third presidential debate. Trump had led by 3 points in Ohio a month ago, 42 percent to Clinton’s 39 percent, in Suffolk University’s September poll.

“The race couldn’t get any closer in the Buckeye State,” said David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Research Center in Boston. “Hillary Clinton has closed the narrow gap with Donald Trump since September, and the final outcome in Ohio could come down to the energy of each candidate’s base and the respective campaigns’ get-out-the-vote operations.”

(David Paleologos, responsible for the poll, also writes for the Huffington Post.)

If Hillary wins it won't be because a majority of voters agreed with her agenda or because they had great confidence in her character and integrity......that we certainly know isn't so as do most Americans.....so that limits the mandate that she certainly will 'claim' , even if she doesn't have one.

Besides she won't be running things as her health grows worse and worse...and that's not going to get better....Huma will be the one running the show...as Hillary's been ill a very long time now

Yeah I hear (and second) that emotion... :-)

but I do wonder, if Hillary wins and there is no fraud, then it seems to me that it would be because elections are driven by very primal, negative emotions (hence the preponderance of negative advertising for elections, duh).

So trump better pour on the negative campaigning on Hillary to counteract all the negative MSM coverage on Trump. Trump should also have more self control in the coming weeks. I am certain all his advisors are telling him to reign back his off the cuff comments. He needs to exhibit self control and let the PAC ads and surrogates do all the attacking. This has been a well known principle of presidential campaigning since at least the 1960s (yes?) if not the 1950s or even before....

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