WILL PENNSYLVANIA DECIDE IT? – AT 12:50 P.M. ET: Some pundits look to Pennsylvania as perhaps the decisive state in the presidential election. And Trump is gaining. From The Hill:
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s lead over Republican rival Donald Trump has narrowed to 3 points in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, according to a new poll.
Clinton leads Trump, 44 percent to 41 percent, in the Morning Call/Muhlenberg College poll released late Saturday.
One week ago, Clinton had a 9-point advantage in that poll, 47 percent to 38 percent.
Clinton’s lead in a four-way matchup is now 2 points, 40 percent to 38 percent, pollsters found. Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson has fallen to 8 percent support, and the Green Party’s Jill Stein has 3 percent.
Trump saw a jump in support from his own party in the new poll, with 85 percent of likely Republican voters in Pennsylvania saying they’d pick him instead of Clinton. That’s up from 71 percent in the last poll.
COMMENT: It has to be the Charlotte riots and Trump's firm law-and-order stand that is producing these new numbers.
If Trump can capture Pennsylvania, it's hard to see Clinton winning the election. Pennsy is a "must" state for her.
September 25, 2016
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