The Briefing Room
General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on November 02, 2016, 11:43:55 pm
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Melanie Mason and Michael A. Memoli Contact Reporters
With one week before election day, Donald Trump spent the bulk of Tuesday campaigning in Wisconsin, a state that has not backed a Republican for president since 1984.
His unorthodox visit came on the heels of trips to Michigan and Pennsylvania, states that also haven’t gone red since the 1980s.
For the final stretch of the presidential race, the GOP nominee has embarked on a strategy of long-shot bids, holding rallies and airing ads in states that have been reliably Democratic in recent elections. Trump’s gambit sacrifices face time in battleground states, but if successful would upend the political map and likely hand him the White House.
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http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-clinton-electoral-map-20161101-story.html
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Melanie Mason and Michael A. Memoli Contact Reporters
With one week before election day, Donald Trump spent the bulk of Tuesday campaigning in Wisconsin, a state that has not backed a Republican for president since 1984.
His unorthodox visit came on the heels of trips to Michigan and Pennsylvania, states that also haven’t gone red since the 1980s.
For the final stretch of the presidential race, the GOP nominee has embarked on a strategy of long-shot bids, holding rallies and airing ads in states that have been reliably Democratic in recent elections. Trump’s gambit sacrifices face time in battleground states, but if successful would upend the political map and likely hand him the White House.
more
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-clinton-electoral-map-20161101-story.html
Mathematically, in addition to winning all the projected GOP states, he would have to win ALL the toss up states, PA and either MI or WI.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/11/02/chuck_todd_electoral_map_trump_has_to_win_pa_mi_or_wi_the_comey_effect.html