Clinton holds huge ground game advantage over Team Trump

[DonViejo]

By Reid Wilson and Joe DiSipio - 10/22/16 04:11 PM EDT

Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign has built a field team in swing-states across the country that is larger than a U.S. Army brigade, giving her a huge advantage over Republican Donald Trump on Election Day.

Between Clinton’s presidential campaign, the Democratic National Committee and state party operations, campaign finance reports show Democrats employ 5,138 staffers across 15 battleground states.

Clinton is funding the army through tens of millions of dollars raised for state Democratic Parties across the country. “Campaigns are won on the ground which is why we invested early to organize and register voters in this historic election,” said Lily Adams, a spokeswoman for Clinton’s campaign.

By contrast, Trump’s campaign, the Republican National Committee and state parties employ just 1,409 staffers in 16 states.

Trump’s campaign has shown little interest in investing in a ground operation.

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http://thehill.com/campaign/302231-clinton-holds-huge-ground-game-advantage-over-team-trump

[Wounded Bear]

1. Trump is about to learn a bitter truth...

Twitter followers and rally attendees are not necessarily voters.

[Denzil_DC]

4. And even Twitter isn't a cinch:

[KelleyKramer]

5. You should make that an Original Post!

Thats funny as hell

[Denzil_DC]

7. Twitter's full of that sort of thing at the moment!

Too many to post (and some maybe best not made too much fuss about at this stage).

If you have some time, take a look at this prime example of Trumpet trolling (LONG read): https://twitter.com/randygdub/status/787747220267278336

[KelleyKramer]

8. I literally laughed out loud! The idiots thought they finally found the fraud they were looking for!

I have a twitter account but haven't really figured out how to find anything on my own, when I go to the front page there are no navigation bars, not even anything that divides it up by subject (like 'politics' or 'current events')

The only thing close to navigation bars is a 'trends' list on the left side, and that is only 10 items out of everything on twitter... oh well, maybe I'm a slow learner

[Denzil_DC]

9. You can maybe see why I'm not keen on making these an OP!

The Trumpets are paranoid enough as it is. It was kinda fun to see them wasting so much time and energy on a sly, daft troll, but it just feeds the narrative.

I don't have a Twitter account myself ( I reckon I'd just end up getting in endless fights and life's too short), but I check it out a lot - very handy for breaking news, and some of it's very amusing.

Here's a Twitter list that may be handy at the moment: https://twitter.com/RichardA/lists/top-50-us-2012-elections

It was put together by a Guardian journalist for the 2012 election, and it brings together some Twitter feeds from across the political spectrum - journalists, RWers, party apparatchiks etc. It can get a bit confusing as the tweets intertwine in time, but I use it a lot.

[Johnny2X2X]

2. 2-3 point difference

A superior ground game can make a 2-3 point difference. With these margins maybe even more. So if Hilary and Donald are tied in OH in the polls, she should win by 2-3 points.

[Cha]

3. While drumpf lays around whining his damn head off.

[oberliner]

6. That is what will make the difference on Election Day

Thankfully.