The five most important questions guiding the final month of the campaignBy James Hohmann The Washington Post
Published Oct. 12, 2016
The chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, Greg Walden, told House members on a private conference call with Paul Ryan Monday that navigating this election is now like "landing an airplane in a hurricane."
Walden, a congressman from Oregon, said the ground is shifting quickly and urged members to keep conducting internal polls so that they have an accurate read of how vulnerable they might now be as the bottom falls out from under Donald Trump's campaign. "You have to trust the instruments," he said, expanding on the hurricane analogy.
It's still unclear whether Hurricane Trump is a Category 1 or a Category 5, or whether he might be a Category 5 today but weaken to a Category 2 by Nov. 8 in terms of the damage he could cause.
As Walden compared their party's nominee to a deathly storm system, NBC and the Wall Street Journal published a poll that put Hillary Clinton ahead in a four-way contest by 11 points with likely voters. She was up 5 points in their previous poll. Forty-one percent of respondents said Trump's comments on a 2005 video were "completely unacceptable." More than half disagreed with the statement that the tape was unimportant because it happened so long ago. While voters viewed Clinton more negatively than positively by 10 points in the poll, they viewed Trump more negatively than positively by 34....
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