Indiana, North Carolina, Kansas, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Iowa, are farm states so to speak. Ohio and Michigan are more industrial with much open farm land and spaces. It will depend on the economies of those states and employment numbers. Should the Economy take a turn downward because of the Tariffs, the continued bad weather, loss of manufacturing, Trump will face defeat.

Many voters in those Great Lakes states voted for him almost on an impulse. "Hillary's pro-free trade, and Tump ain't!"

And even so he won those by a hair - assuming no votes were flipped.

Cheeto has to do at least as well next year to eke out re-election, and you pointed out there's practically no way given the economy in those states.

So as I see it, two things could save the orange blob: Putin and Bibi's electronic vote flippers (and they're definitely working on this); or some convenient 'incident' on U.S. soil.

And I'm sure "new Pearl Harbor" Bolton's working on that too.

locked up BLM, bombed Iran and North Korea. They'll vote for trump in 2020 when it comes down to it.

Independents who reluctantly picked Trump at the last minute because they thought he was anti-free trade, people who bought into his infrastructure shtick, etc.

And for someone who won by the skin of his teeth - four key Great Lakes states, by less than 1% (assuming no fraud) - this isn't a god sign at all.

No wonder he's so anxious to provoke the Iranians into a war.

Good an' white.

it's a whole different world down there