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applegrove

(118,022 posts)
Sat Mar 19, 2016, 07:13 PM Mar 2016

Clinton vs. Trump Could Reshape the Electoral Map

Clinton vs. Trump Could Reshape the Electoral Map

https://politicalwire.com/2016/03/19/clinton-vs-trump-could-reshape-the-electoral-map/

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“After successive campaigns in which President Obama expanded the Democrats’ electoral map options by focusing on fast-growing and increasingly diverse states, a 2016 race between Clinton and Trump could devolve principally into a pitched battle for the Rust Belt,” the Washington Post reports.

“Among the 18 states that have been in Democratic hands since the 1992 election are Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Along with Ohio and Iowa, those heartland states are likely to be the most intensely contested battlegrounds in the country if the Trump-Clinton race materializes.”

“All those states have higher concentrations of white voters, including larger percentages of older, white working-class voters, than many of the states in faster-growing areas that President Obama looked to in his two campaigns.”



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Clinton vs. Trump Could Reshape the Electoral Map (Original Post) applegrove Mar 2016 OP
At my county/senate district convention, a Texas Democratic Party official said Texas may be in play Gothmog Mar 2016 #1
Would love to flip Texas, obviously.... Wounded Bear Mar 2016 #2

Gothmog

(144,005 posts)
1. At my county/senate district convention, a Texas Democratic Party official said Texas may be in play
Sat Mar 19, 2016, 10:16 PM
Mar 2016

According to this official, there is a recent poll that shows that Clinton within three points in Texas. If Texas turns blue, the GOP is done for

Wounded Bear

(58,440 posts)
2. Would love to flip Texas, obviously....
Sat Mar 19, 2016, 11:48 PM
Mar 2016

would really love to flip the congressional delegation, too. I know is impossible, but a guy can dream, right?

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