Posted on 09/18/2016 9:29:46 AM PDT by Steelfish
Clinton Outdoing Trump in Pennsylvania, a Must-Win State By THOMAS BEAUMONT
Hillary Clinton's campaign is aggressively outworking Donald Trump in battleground Pennsylvania, a state the billionaire businessman can scarcely afford to lose and still hope to become president.
Despite polling well in Pennsylvania throughout the summer, Clinton's team is nevertheless bearing down in a state her party has carried in six straight elections. They are ratcheting up advertising and dispatching their top supporters to Pennsylvania, from Bill Clinton to Joe Biden to last week's visit from President Barack Obama.
"We've got to fight for this thing," Obama thundered at a rally in Philadelphia last Tuesday. "I need you to work as hard for Hillary as you did for me. I need you to knock on doors. I need you to make phone calls. You've got to talk to your friends, including your Republican friends."
At a minimum, an energized Pennsylvania campaign is a balm for Clinton as she weathers a dip in national polls and dips in the swing states of Florida and Ohio. But with roughly seven weeks until Election Day, Trump's scattershot approach to the state also puts his White House prospects in jeopardy.
"There is no Trump turnout organization, and you can't construct one" in the time remaining, said former Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell.
For Trump, nearly any route to the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House includes Pennsylvania's 20 votes. With Clinton's edge in Colorado and Virginia, and her competitive standing in North Carolina, Trump could potentially win vote-rich Florida and Ohio, as well as competitive Iowa and New Hampshire, and still fall short of the White House unless he can capture Pennsylvania, too.
Clinton's strategy is focused firmly.....
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How can I be up to post 30 without anyone mentioning Trump DOES NOT need PA for a path to 270. Not even close.
He will take CO, NV, Iwoa, FL, OH and he will win.
When did this nonsense start being believable?
A republican depending on PA? give me a break.
Even so, steelfish has been, in the past, ZOTTED by his anti Trump harangues...If the shoe fits..............
I think my #18 post is much more telling of what’s going on in PA.
The Koo Koo writers at ABC must be on drugs.
O.K. I was not aware of that. Thanks for the info.
Here in Illinois “ground game” means that municipal and state employee managers have put their subordinates on notice that they will all lose their jobs if the opponent wins, and that their will be people watching at the polls.
Of course Hillary has a better ground game, everyone sucking at the gub’mint tit in expected to fall in line.
The buses are gassed up for the nursing home runs, the dead have already got their early voting done, and packs of cigarettes have been purchased by the truck-load for Cook County.
Sure...:o)
Well Trump has a chance if a good chunk of independents swing his way and a good chunk of democrats stay home.
Speaking of ground game, look how pathetic theirs is in Ohio - https://twitter.com/usafortrump2016/status/777553464150798337
She will be taking a bath in burning brimstone soon enough anyway--she is at death's door.
Wake up America.
Wake up America.
Yep. I saw a news program it was a few months ago and they were saying she needs to poll at 50% to win or something to that effect. It was either a CNN or MSNBC show.
Actually I believe that Nixon lost by a pretty wide margin in the electoral vote.
“I think Randell fails to see that Trump voters don’t need someone breathing down their neck tat happen in 28 o vote.......they are all looking forward to the day they vote for Trump...the pride people have within for finally someone standing up to all that’s wrong in this country is beyond compare to any other election....they’ll be there....and love doing so!”
Oh, so true. Here in West Knox Co.,TN I had to wait nearly an hour to vote early on the last day of early voting in the Republican primary. Never had anything like that happen in 28 years.
Ohio would be a nice kick-in-the-teeth to John Kasich, pieces be upon him.
PA has gone reliably Dem for the last several elections, thanks to flagrant vote fraud in Philadelphia. That they think they need ground game in PA is very telling.
538 just posted, as did rooters, that Trump is tied or ahead in the electoral vote battle.
AND PA NOR NJ ARE INCLUDED.
We’re looking at a million states we didn’t get last time. Ones i CANT BELIEVE.
But you’re a very sharp guy and I enjoy your posts. I dont need to tell you what you already know.
Why would they pour so many resources into a “safe” state, if Hillary is really up by so much in PA????
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I ax myself the same question—hillary ads all day and night here in Illinois.
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