The poll-based model indicates that Clinton is likely to get over 300 electoral votes. The model currently shows her with 323, which includes all of the typically Democratic states plus Wisconsin, Michigan, Florida, North Carolina and Nevada. She can safely lose Florida, North Carolina and Nevada ― the states she’s winning with the narrowest margin of victory in the model ― and still win 273 electoral votes and the presidency.
Trump has a much more difficult path to 270. The model gives him only 215 electoral votes, and that includes close races in Nevada and Ohio. Trump would need to hold all of those states plus overtake Clinton in Florida, North Carolina, Nevada and one more state to win.
But the 16.3 percent likelihood of Trump winning means it could happen ― Florida, North Carolina and Nevada are very close races. Clinton leads by less than 2 percentage points in the Sunshine State and by less than 1 point in the other two states.
Getting one additional state beyond those three appears difficult right now, but some individual polls have shown Trump within striking distance in Wisconsin, Michigan, Colorado and Pennsylvania in the last couple of weeks. Flipping any one of those states, along with Florida, North Carolina and Nevada, would shift the race to a Trump win… see more
source: huffingtonpost
Tags: Hillary Clinton, Politics, President of USA, US Elections 2016
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