Tightening, as Labor Day Battle for 1600 Intensifies
WHERE DOES the presidential race stand today?
Donald Trump isn’t finished. After all he’s said and how he’s acted, he’s chipping away at Clinton’s lead and he’s not done yet.
The presidential campaign will enter a final phase after Labor Day, when there will be an increase in political advertising in battleground states and final appeals will be made to those few voters who have yet to make up their minds.
Though the tracking poll shows that Trump may be closing the gap against Clinton among Independent voters, another key question for both campaigns is whether these non-partisans will be motivated to vote at all. According to data from this week’s tracking poll, 70 percent of Independents who now support Clinton say they have supported someone else in the past six months. Among those Independents who currently support Trump, 64 percent say they supported someone else in the past six months.
Bloomberg Politics has an analysis that’s even less comforting to Democrats, especially when you consider the Senate.
What hurts Clinton in Michigan is a poor showing among younger voters—the cohort that helped Bernie Sanders score an upset in the Democratic primary; currently in the Wolverine State’s 18-34 age group, Trump leads her 45%-33%
Real Clear Politics average of where the race stands today is down to a 4-point advantage for Clinton.
Then there is the other notion being circulated that’s been stirring under the headlines for weeks.
Hillary Clinton has separated Trump from the Republican Party very successfully, making the case that it’s okay to vote for a Democrat because Donald’s not really a conservative or a Republican. This has given some senatorial races a boost on the Republican side, as people get comfortable with splitting their ballot, which could give new life to GOP senatorial campaigns.
Hillary is looking for a mandate.
Trump continues his plot to blow the system up.
The final stretch of the battle for 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue begins next week, with the September debate meaning a lot more than it did in July.
What will #AmnestyDon say next?
The problem for voters leaning Donald is that you never know.
Hillary has cut Don off from the heard. But- yesh she really needs the senate and a big gain in the house- no? How do dems win downballots-to me this is the big question. I also think Hillary has a governing strategy here-by persuading us Don isnt fit etc and a extremist and by applauding bush jr and paul ryn on immigration etc-isnt she laying the road to have a coalition of dems and rs vs trump now and convert it into governance in Jan?
“…isnt she laying the road to have a coalition of dems and rs vs trump now and convert it into governance in Jan? This strategy is a double-edged machete with so many complications and implications but Team Clinton is executing well so they’ve got information that it could work. HRC is very comfy courting both sides. It’s her north star, imo. When she does a deal she wants everyone happy in the end. {{{Insert progressive activist grumbling here}}} Clinton is also working for a mandate electorally through this strategy. Leverage on Congress to pass her vision. Somebody better be thinking… Read more »
The Donald squishing of his signature issue of immigration would seem to be a very dangerous game. But it’s hard to say if the man is moderating one little bit. At the rallies he is the same old deport them all , and ask questions later fire bomber we have all learned to love. The other Donald that shows up on TV and claims a bit of seller’s remorse is the one trying, maybe, perhaps, fingers crossed trying to get himself of of the corner he painted himself in.
Gotta say, the only thing that matters to me is the first debate.
Anyway, the guy can’t utter a single straight sentence on the subject anymore. He’s trying to signal he’s okay to hoodwink suburban voters, especially women, that they can trust him.
The planned minority outreach is going to be wild to watch.
Rush gave him a pass on immigration, so it should be something.
http://www.redstate.com/absentee/2016/08/29/limbaugh-never-took-trump-seriously-immigration-anyway/
What I have always been amazed at is how often el Blubbo TELLS the morons who listen to him that he lied through his teeth to them!!!! And like a dog returneth to it’s own vomit they keep coming back for more!
I just read that Trump is flying to Mexico City tomorrow to meet with the Mexican President. I would love to be a mouse listening to the conversation.
The fact that the polling spread is only 4 speaks volumes as to the unheralded negative in this election cycle. No, this negative is not Trump since that one is indeed heralded from all corners every day there is media output. And, unlike the Dukakis candidacy, you can’t blame this one on campaigning missteps…the Clinton campaign seems to be doing its job smartly. Democrats are only marginally better off than Republicans, in that the glossed over negative is the person of their candidate. Given the idiocy of Trump as a general election campaigner, her lead really ought to be at… Read more »
30 emails relating to Benghazi found among 14,900 deleted emails recovered by the FBI.
Sideshow Hillary steps on yet another rake…
This is readily explained……..Hillary was helping Chelsea with possible venue options in northern Libya, consistent with the “only personal matters emails were deleted.”
ChinaGrrl and Casual talk amongst yourselves, the rest of us are bone tired of both the emails and Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi. I throughly understand why this crossing of the streams is like catnip to some, but please. Benghazi and the emails are nothing burgers, obsessions of people primed to be obsessed, and zero times zero is zero– not the elventy billion some would think it is.
+1 on anything Benghazi.
The point isn’t Benghazi per se, the point is she did not turn over e-mails on her private server that were clearly work related. These e-mails were among those that her attorneys deleted as personal.
Clinton’s private server was a stupid decision, which I’ve said many times.
What you’ve got to understand is that it’s now baked into her low “honest & trustworthy” numbers.
Since you’re not for Clinton, what you should be looking for is Clinton Foundation news that hurts HRC, because the email server isn’t going to move the needle.
If Assange does do a dump in October it’s Foundation tidbits that will hurt her, but again, she’s running against TRUMP.
I’m not for either Trump or Clinton. It’s looking like third party for me. FWIW I think HRC would be a superior president to Trump.
Just saying the server was a stupid decision avoids the fact that Clinton has lied many times about almost every aspect of the e-mails, and continues to lie. That’s really the concerning part right now, although her initial decisions about the server are also a concern. And yes Trump is a liar too, but that should be no consolation to anyone.
Again, the email server AND the “lies” you feel she’s told are already figured into her “honest & trustworthy” numbers.
Trump’s “lies” don’t bother me. His total and complete unpreparedness on foreign policy is the problem, as is his lack of any interest in learning what he doesn’t know.
And so The President of Mexico came out and in a polite way said Trump is a LIAR. But to listen to wingnut radio this was more important and substantive the Yalta!!!!! I have to ask myself…in all honesty….do these people actually believe the completely delusional crap they gibber?!!!
I am sure after yesterday the polls are going to change again. But…I am more concerned about state polls because of the electoral college. Janet Napolitano just stated on CNN that if there were a 10 ft. wall there would be a 12 ft. ladder LOL. I think someone needs to examine Trumps brain and the people that support him.
National polls mean little.
The latest Clinton Foundation rumble hit her hard, which is why state polls are tightening, imo.
The email saga is a built in negative.
Trump actually looked presidential with Mexico’s Pres. Pena Nieto.
But last night’s speech?????
WOW.
I don’y know that not calling the Mexican President a wet back or actually drooling on oneself is exactly looking Presidential.
sech – Not quite. Trump cited “Operation Wetback,” done in the early 1950s.
I really have a hard time watching Trump because I personally think the way he dresses isn’t very presidential. Did anyone notice President Nieto’s face while he was watching Trump answer a question? I personally thought it was priceless especially when Trump said they didn’t talk about paying for the wall. Again, Trump lied which seems that whenever he speaks there are lies.
come on. we don’t know if Trump lied.
As far as I’m concerned he more than likely lied. After all, he’s a huge liar. If you follow him and hear some of the things he says and then research them you discover that he lied.
Did Trump lie? Is the ex-Pope an ex-Nazi?