Some States Are Very Important to Donald Trump.

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Some States Are Very Important to Donald Trump. He's Currently Losing in Those States.

Although the usual disclaimers apply.

By Charles P. Pierce AUG 12, 2016



We don't usually post about polls here in the shebeen, but, since we were talking earlier about how Republicans in the newly insane state of North Carolina are making it so hard for Certain People to vote that even the federal courts have begun to notice, we thought we'd throw up some numbers produced on Friday by the NBC/Wall Street Journal abacus.

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election...ds-n629136

"These are supposed to be battleground states, but right now, they don't look that way," says Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

Indeed, if Clinton ultimately wins all four, Trump has no realistic path to getting the 270 electoral votes needed for victory. And even if Trump is able to win in Florida and its 29 electoral votes, he has to run the table in the other battlegrounds, including in Pennsylvania.

I know. I know. Labor Day. The Debates. Anything Can Happen and Whatta Year It's Been, Amirite? But, right now, in these critical states, the Republican presidential candidate looks as though he's spiraling out of control into a very deep ravine.

(And if you can look at those numbers and figure out why the hell he's in Connectticut tomorrow, you should contact the RNC immediately.)

You will note in particular that HRC is leading by nine in North Carolina, even with all the effort the state legislature has put into creating a wide margin of finagle in the numbers. And, just as a set decoration, I thought I'd leave this right here.

Amendment XV: Section 1: The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude; Section 2: The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

If that nine-point spread holds, and the Reverend William Barber, official preacherman of this shebeen, isn't invited to give the invocation at the inauguration, somebody really should get fired.

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