2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forum538 Nowcast has Hillary at 95.4%, South Carolina 50.4% - HRC
And Missouri teetering. Hillary is still gaining nearly everywhere. Still early yes, but also hard to see how Trump significantly reverses these trends except in the reddest of states. Watch for Republicans to go all in on saving the Senate and the House and conceding the election of HRC.
http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/#now
msongs
(67,459 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)... Trump's busy in states like Maine.
yellowcanine
(35,702 posts)She pointed out that he didn't even go to the congressional district where he had the best chance (but still small) of getting 1 EV.
She called it campaign malpractice. As far as I can tell he mainly (no pun intended) went up there to bash Somali refugees, which has actually been something of a success story in Maine so even that will likely backfire.
The_Counsel
(1,660 posts)Sorry. Had to do it.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)Thanks, Trump!
(This almost isn't even fair: she deserves a better and more honorable opponent.)
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)yellowcanine
(35,702 posts)Where does she get 6 more EVs?
Edit: Actually Texas is very close, Hillary down only 2.9% to Trump. If HRC gets Texas, the landslide becomes a blow out.
TexasTowelie
(112,497 posts)Republicans aren't that popular considering the economically disastrous policies of Brownback.
yellowcanine
(35,702 posts)Turn out that Hispanic vote in Texas!
Johnny2X2X
(19,178 posts)Polls only is up to 86.5. Polls Plus is 78.3.
Hillary has a massive lead right now with 3 months to go. It would be unprecedented for Donald to keep it close on election day.
Stuart G
(38,449 posts)Gradually as the word spreads to most..this early in the cycle, about some of the awful lies..history of lying about everything..people are deciding now..and will not change their minds..
tallahasseedem
(6,716 posts)I'm holding a party somewhere!
moonscape
(4,674 posts)hell would've frozen over ...
I don't mind being cold!
tallahasseedem
(6,716 posts)Agreed!
rufus dog
(8,419 posts)Both Coast would be solid blue!
brooklynite
(94,786 posts)Helping Kander, Ross and Kirkpatrick would help with Statewide turnout.
0rganism
(23,975 posts)if the GOP can gin up some domestic terrorism, they can get leverage
Wounded Bear
(58,732 posts)The Blue states are mostly med-to-dark blue. AZ is the only pale blue state under 70%.
OTOH, many of the Red states are light-to-med pink. This is looking good. And hopefully, it'll show up in the down ticket races big time.
America is perhaps regaining some sanity.
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)That's it! We need more threads attacking Jill Stein.
CobaltBlue
(1,122 posts)In 2012, President Barack Obama won re-election with the U.S. Popular Vote carrying for him, over losing Republican Mitt Romney, by +4.
Additional 2016 shift for the Democrats would yield the 2012 map plus, as a guide, pickups from the following:
+6: North Carolina
+8 or +9: Georgia, Arizona
+10 or +11: Indiana, Missouri, and Nebraska #02 (Omaha)
+12: South Carolina
+13: Montana
+15: Texas and Nebraska #01 (Lincoln); with Utah a question mark
What we are seeing, with the "Blue Firewall" states are their Democratic margins solidifying. A landslide election isn't going to produce an outcome where any of them are in question. (I'm referring to states like Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. They carry above the Democrats' national margins.)
The four most influential bellwether states are Colorado (the tipping point state in both 2008 and 2012), Florida, Ohio, and Virginia (which came closest to matching the popular-vote margin with both 2008 and 2012). They're looking on par with national margin indicated as to Clinton beating Trump. (Well, if she wins by +10 nationally, Ohio will carry for her probably by +8 and Florida by +7 as minimums.)
So, light a tug-of-rope of the electoral map, to win by +10, or even better, will now deal with states in Mitt Romney's 2012 Republican column. So, we know North Carolina (which has been 6 points or less, in margins spread, from Virginia since 1984) is the first to flip. Then Georgia and Arizona. Now, it's being South Carolina as an emerging state. Indiana and Missouri are needing even more polling; they need to be watched more carefully. And if this turns out to be a +15 landslide for Hillary Clinton, we will be seeing the equivalent of Texas for 2016 as Indiana for 2008. (Back then, it was, "Can John McCain hold onto Indiana?"