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yellowcanine

(35,702 posts)
Mon Aug 8, 2016, 02:56 PM Aug 2016

538 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

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538 Nowcast has Hillary at 95.4%, South Carolina 50.4% - HRC (Original Post) yellowcanine Aug 2016 OP
time for a Hillary campaign road trip: AZ to UT to MO to SC and on to GA nt msongs Aug 2016 #1
Solidify and cement those "leaning" and "either/or" states!! While ... NurseJackie Aug 2016 #3
Rachel skewered Trump for wasting time in Maine. yellowcanine Aug 2016 #9
...and ALL THE WAY TO THE WHITE HOUSE!! YEARGH!! The_Counsel Aug 2016 #12
It's highly unusual for a convention bounce to continue to grow frazzled Aug 2016 #2
50.1% of the popular vote. EV = 384-153 COMPLETE LANDSLIDE MANDATE! eom MohRokTah Aug 2016 #4
I want to see her break the magic 400 EV Mark. Missouri gets her to 394. yellowcanine Aug 2016 #5
Kansas? TexasTowelie Aug 2016 #6
Texas actually closer than Kansas in this analysis. yellowcanine Aug 2016 #8
Polls now is 95.4 Johnny2X2X Aug 2016 #7
Why????No one wants a pathological liar... Stuart G Aug 2016 #10
I swear, if we win SC... tallahasseedem Aug 2016 #11
I'm buyin' a huge (fake) fur coat cuz moonscape Aug 2016 #17
ROFL! tallahasseedem Aug 2016 #18
Wouldn't that be cool rufus dog Aug 2016 #19
Clinton should start tying her travel with our battleground State Senate candidates... brooklynite Aug 2016 #13
watch out for October Surprise 0rganism Aug 2016 #14
Wow, if you mouse around that map something pops out.... Wounded Bear Aug 2016 #15
95.4%? Capt. Obvious Aug 2016 #16
My theory… CobaltBlue Aug 2016 #20

NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)
3. Solidify and cement those "leaning" and "either/or" states!! While ...
Mon Aug 8, 2016, 03:01 PM
Aug 2016

... Trump's busy in states like Maine.

yellowcanine

(35,702 posts)
9. Rachel skewered Trump for wasting time in Maine.
Mon Aug 8, 2016, 03:23 PM
Aug 2016

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.

frazzled

(18,402 posts)
2. It's highly unusual for a convention bounce to continue to grow
Mon Aug 8, 2016, 03:00 PM
Aug 2016

Thanks, Trump!

(This almost isn't even fair: she deserves a better and more honorable opponent.)

yellowcanine

(35,702 posts)
5. I want to see her break the magic 400 EV Mark. Missouri gets her to 394.
Mon Aug 8, 2016, 03:06 PM
Aug 2016

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.

Johnny2X2X

(19,178 posts)
7. Polls now is 95.4
Mon Aug 8, 2016, 03:12 PM
Aug 2016

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)
10. Why????No one wants a pathological liar...
Mon Aug 8, 2016, 03:24 PM
Aug 2016

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..

brooklynite

(94,786 posts)
13. Clinton should start tying her travel with our battleground State Senate candidates...
Mon Aug 8, 2016, 03:36 PM
Aug 2016

Helping Kander, Ross and Kirkpatrick would help with Statewide turnout.

Wounded Bear

(58,732 posts)
15. Wow, if you mouse around that map something pops out....
Mon Aug 8, 2016, 03:44 PM
Aug 2016

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.

 

CobaltBlue

(1,122 posts)
20. My theory…
Mon Aug 8, 2016, 05:42 PM
Aug 2016

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?&quot

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