13 June 2016

AP: Road to 270: Electoral map already looks tough for Trump

Trump will need to turn out white voters in the Upper Midwest in numbers that far exceed those in past presidential elections. Even if that happens, he's still likely to need to convince women in swing-voting suburbs that he has the temperament to be commander in chief.

And he must stop his party from losing more ground among minorities, particularly Hispanics. That will be a particularly tough task against Clinton, who powered past Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on the Democratic side due in part to her overwhelming popularity among black voters, as well as Latinos — a fast-growing voting group that is turning Southern and Western states into presidential battlegrounds. [...]

Some North Carolina polls — like national polls taken this spring — show Clinton trailing among men as badly, and in some cases worse, than Trump does with some

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