10% seems a stretch to me, and of course we all know the national poll is only an indicator.
The State that interests me most if Michigan. If THAT goes red, Trumps got it.
North Carolina. He doesn't have a path without it and Pennsylvania and we will see North Carolina come in first. If he loses North Carolina, I'd go to bed.
Check out the maps on Electoral-Vote.com and RCP. Trump's path even with the FBI release remains narrow. He can win Ohio and Florida and actually lose the race.
The tipping point state has been moving between 3-5 into "blue" territory, with the lighter blues getting more and more prevalent.
NC isn't a nail in the coffin, but it would be a big blow unless more states go "light" blue.
I don't know. I think that a lot of the states out West that are blue are probably pretty solid, even with this FBI thing. The leads there are fairly strong and are backed up by a lot of early voting. Without North Carolina, he's got to flip Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio, and at least one of the Wisconsin, Michigan, or Minnesota group. There's a lot of evidence that Colorado, Nevada, and New Mexico are effectively off the board for the GOP.
I'll walk it back though. If Hillary wins Pennsylvania and North Carolina, I'm planning to head to bed. At that point the only real mystery would be the Senate control and I can wait till the morning for that to shake out.
More than likely those are more accurate "tipping points". Of course the volatility of this election means that can change tomorrow.
Yeah, it's been a crazy one. But I still think those turn out to be "the tipping point" states. If we wake up next Monday and Trump is showing a lead in the average polling data in North Carolina and Pennsylvania, then it'll be pretty much over. If Clinton is still leading in those two, then Tuesday will be a cake walk for her.
There's not much evidence the polls are off in any significant way this time. A lot of Red states have purged the voting records if folks haven't voted in a few years. Despite that, we aren't seeing a huge flood of GOP registrations that Trump seems to be banking on. During the primaries, the GOP races were pretty well predicted by the polls with Trump actually under performing his polls a bit. I know a lot of folks here are banking on some sort of silent majority showing up, but so far no evidence of it has happened.
I will say this: I'm listening to the FiveThirtyEight podcast. They're daily right now and every day Nate Silver, who correctly called a lot of elections recently (though he did screw up his call on the GOP nomination) has been warning that if ever there was a year for a polling error to slip in, this is that year. It sounds like he believes his models in that Clinton will win, but Trump has a good chance for an upset.