NBC/WSJ/Marist: Clinton leading in CO (+14/+12), FL (+5), NC (+9), VA (+13/+12)

[Erich Maria Remarque]

If Clinton secures North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Colorado and Virginia (as current polls indicate) race is over.

If Clinton secures +8 lead nationally (as current polls indicate) race is over.

[Erich Maria Remarque]

So yeah, Trump is toast. 2008 is probably the best comparison right now.

If this trajectory keeps up 1964 might be a better comparison

[Erich Maria Remarque]

I mean, she's recently been sporting her modest "let's appeal to simple, religious, salt-of-the-earth, low-income voters" hairstyle, so it's not hard to believe these places really are locks.

Hillary always seemed more genuine and stronger candidate to me when she worked the populist working-class issues in the '08 primaries than the Hillary of the '16 primaries.

Now I haven't been paying much attention to her hairstyle or clothing, but rhetorically and substantively I think she has now successfully managed to pivot back to the "fighter for all Americans" mode, now that the primaries are over and (thanks to Bernie), we now have an extremely progressive party platform.

Not quite sure your exact meaning....  are you are saying that she has solidified support in these particular states as a result of expanding support among low-income White/Anglo undecided voters, or that somehow these states are more representative of that particular demographic? I am assuming the former, rather than the latter.

In fact, I'm suggesting that the she has already secured the places where any Democrat should be competitive.

Now she has the luxury of trying to appeal to less liberally inclined voters in traditionally red states. Hence the less manicured look.

Trump did it for her.

[Erich Maria Remarque]

By the way, it looks like the Clinton campaign's internal polling is pretty damn good. They pulled out of CO/VA long before any public polls were showing her up double digits there.

Rather good point, actually. Keeping an eye on Clinton's campaign moves may be the best barometer we have on the election's status.

Agreed

Yep.

Lol