August 23, 2016, 06:00 am
Trump-Clinton race redraws battle for electoral college
By Niall Stanage
This year’s extraordinary election campaign is redrawing the political map, leaving experts debating whether the shift is a one-off or a more permanent change.
States expected to be hotly contested battlegrounds, such as Colorado, Virginia and even North Carolina, are shifting into the Democratic column, according to recent polls. Erstwhile Republican strongholds such as Georgia, Arizona and Utah are now competitive.
In Iowa and Ohio, GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump is not running as far behind Mitt Romney’s showing in 2012 as he is elsewhere. Both states have a high proportion of white voters and voters without a college degree.
The overall picture is an ominous one for the GOP, according to Republican strategists.
They fear their party could see its fortunes mauled as a consequence of two factors: large-scale demographic changes that make the landscape less hospitable for the GOP, and Trump’s startlingly poor performance so far with normally-reliable pillars of Republican support, such as college-educated whites.
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http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/292244-trump-clinton-race-redraws-battle-for-electoral-college
