Trump's Electoral College path difficult, but not impossible

[mystery-ak]

August 15, 2016, 06:52 am
Trump's Electoral College path difficult, but not impossible

By Ron Faucheux, contributor

Will Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton ride her current polling lead to the White House? Or, can GOP nominee Donald Trump still win?

The answer will be determined by events and, ultimately, the arithmetic of the Electoral College, that vintage institution created by the Constitution to elect presidents.

National polls, we should be reminded, measure popular votes and reveal broad trends, but don't tell us much about state electoral votes — the building blocks of a winning presidential campaign. Remember when Vice President Al Gore won the popular vote nationwide, but lost the electoral vote?

To understand the state of play, we have to look at the possible paths to victory each candidate has, and that means focusing on swing states that will draw the most campaign activity.

In 2012, President Obama won 26 states, plus the District of Columbia, for a total of 332 electoral votes, which exceeded the 270 needed to win. That year's Republican nominee, Mitt Romney, won 24 states for 206 Electoral College votes.

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[Oceander]

In an election that should have been a cake walk for the GOP, the best we can do, two and a half months before the election, is settle for "difficult, but not impossible"?

How utterly asinine.

[sinkspur]

If the battleground polls stay as they are, it's impossible.