Race breaking Clinton's way

[DonViejo]

October 03, 2016, 06:00 am

By Niall Stanage

Hillary Clinton has a small but meaningful edge over Donald Trump with a little more than five weeks to go until the election.

Clinton has moved onto firmer ground over the last week, thanks to her performance in the first primetime debate and ongoing troubles for Trump. She has led in every significant battleground state poll conducted in the debate’s aftermath. The race remains competitive, however.

Clinton’s lead in the RealClearPolitics (RCP) national polling average is hovering between two and three percentage points. Trump still leads in the polling averages of several battleground states, including Ohio, North Carolina and Nevada. The data forecasting site FiveThirtyEight gives Trump about a one-in-three chance of prevailing.

But if Trump is to triumph, even Republicans acknowledge that their nominee will have to exert more discipline than he has shown in the past week. In a speech on Saturday night, he departed from his prepared text repeatedly, mocking Clinton's recent battle with pneumonia and saying he did not think she was "loyal" to her husband, former President Bill Clinton.

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http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/298793-race-breaking-clintons-way

[book_worm]

1. She needs to keep the momentum going during the next two debates

We know how the media loves their horse races.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

2. Trump has had a year and half to show discipline and he hasn't

I think that was enough chances already.

[beachbum bob]

3. trumps so called strengths are all working against him and I see no way he can change from what

he is doing...going full junkyard dog as the criticism and questions grow. His refusal to take advice from seasoned campaign staff won't change, ever....his composure wonn't change ever.

all hillary has to do is what she's been doing.....trump zingers....put him on defense and never go in the mud with him. Trump will do the rest.

[vi5]

4. Only a few more weeks to go...

..unfortunately in American politics that is a lifetime.

I'm torn between wanting HRC to keep going the way she has been, and wanting her to just lay low so that there's little chance of doing or saying something that the media can blow out of proportion.

[titaniumsalute]

5. ..." he will need to exert more discipline in the next five weeks..."

I love this quote from the article. They've been saying this since he locked up the primary. HE ISN'T GOING TO DO THIS. Matter of fact he doubled down over the weekend with his off-the-rails blubbering.