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Trump's Electoral College path of least resistance

Posted on 9/22/20 at 8:00 am
Posted by RidiculousHype
St. George, LA
Member since Sep 2007
10224 posts
Posted on 9/22/20 at 8:00 am
Despite all the bad polling, Trump has a path to reelection that doesn't involve any major state upsets, and only requires two minor upsets. That would be PA, where he has a 38% chance to win according to betting markets, and Arizona (37%).

If you give him PA, AZ, + all the states he's favored in, which includes NC (52%), FL (53%), ME-2 (59%), IA (63%), GA (65%), OH (67%), TX (74%), etc, you get this map:



(All %s used above are from predictit betting market as of 9/22 at 8am CT)
This post was edited on 9/22/20 at 8:52 am
Posted by Wtodd
Tampa, FL
Member since Oct 2013
67506 posts
Posted on 9/22/20 at 8:01 am to
quote:

path of least resistance

Taking 47 states does that
Posted by waiting4saturday
Covington, LA
Member since Sep 2005
9747 posts
Posted on 9/22/20 at 8:03 am to
PA will go Red unless they harvest about 200% voter turnout in Philly.
Posted by jcaz
Laffy
Member since Aug 2014
15724 posts
Posted on 9/22/20 at 8:06 am to
MN, WI, MI
He’s taking one of those three easily
Posted by GumboPot
Member since Mar 2009
119031 posts
Posted on 9/22/20 at 8:19 am to
Before yesterday I felt better about Trump taking Minnesota and Wisconsin than I did about him taking Pennsylvania. But then I saw the advantage that the GOP has gained in Pennsylvania in registered Republicans over Democrats since 2016 posted by anc yesterday. There is close to a net 200k advantage for the GOP in PA since 2016 for registered voters. I feel much better about PA today.
Posted by Robin Masters
Birmingham
Member since Jul 2010
29996 posts
Posted on 9/22/20 at 8:24 am to
Bold prediction:

Biden only wins CA & NY
Posted by SlickRick55
Member since May 2016
1899 posts
Posted on 9/22/20 at 8:24 am to
You snuck Ohio in there, though.
Posted by Mid Iowa Tiger
Undisclosed Secure Location
Member since Feb 2008
18739 posts
Posted on 9/22/20 at 8:25 am to
I really do not see Trump doing worse (or biden doing better than Hillary)than what happened in 2016. In fact I think Trump will pick up a deep blue state or two.
Posted by bayoubengals88
LA
Member since Sep 2007
18999 posts
Posted on 9/22/20 at 8:26 am to
Nevada would be a good gamble on Predictit.

Trump get out the vote campaign is going hard there, and he lost to Hillary by less than 3%

Posted by BugAC
St. George
Member since Oct 2007
52920 posts
Posted on 9/22/20 at 8:29 am to
FWIW, MN, WI, and MI are going Trump again, without a doubt. AZ may not, due to the electioneering going on with the dems over there. And Trump is getting all of NE's electoral votes.
Posted by The Boat
Member since Oct 2008
164349 posts
Posted on 9/22/20 at 8:29 am to
If Trump wins NE2 he doesn’t even need Arizona. But that’s a bit gamble because that’s going to be a tight race in Omaha with the dumbass white educated vote there. He’d have 269 and win the election through the house delegations.
Posted by TigerAxeOK
Where I lay my head is home.
Member since Dec 2016
24969 posts
Posted on 9/22/20 at 8:34 am to
Arizona will be a tough pull. The mass exodus to there from the people leaving the Communist Republic of California is turning Arizona blue quickly.
Posted by SirWinston
PNW
Member since Jul 2014
82258 posts
Posted on 9/22/20 at 8:39 am to
The people’s pundit daily folks seem to think that Trump is good in AZ
Posted by jrodLSUke
Premium
Member since Jan 2011
22264 posts
Posted on 9/22/20 at 8:40 am to
Election night will be hanging on the PA results early on. If PA goes red, it's pretty much over for Biden. PA is the key, and both sides start to run out of paths to the WH without PA.
Posted by Enos Burdette
Atlanta, Georgia
Member since Dec 2019
693 posts
Posted on 9/22/20 at 9:28 am to
quote:

Despite all the bad polling, Trump has a path to reelection that doesn't involve any major state upsets


Man I'm all in on re-election but I'm afraid some of ya'll have your head in the sand. It's shaking out to be a very narrow and specific path for Trump and I wouldn't have thought that in February we'd be here.

quote:

That would be PA, where he has a 38% chance to win according to betting markets, and Arizona (37%).


He's got to have PA if he has any chance to win. I hope some of the landslide predictors on here are starting to see this. All the rallys and boat parades and signs don't mean anything without the vote turning out.

VOTE!!
Posted by Fun Bunch
New Orleans
Member since May 2008
116322 posts
Posted on 9/22/20 at 9:30 am to
If he takes PA he wins this election.

If he doesn't he's got to piece together some real tossups.
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