Labor Day may no longer be the kickoff of to presidential campaigns,
but it now marks their homestretch: Americans come back from vacations,
spend more time watching TV (including political ads, news and
debates), and begin to focus on the election.
Heading into the holiday, Hillary Clinton enjoys
some obvious advantages over Donald Trump that most presidential
candidates would kill for: She's ahead in the polls, has raised more
money, has run more ads, built the bigger ground game, enlisted more
bold-named allies, peeled off more defections from the opposing party
and inherited a better electoral college outlook.
It's easy to see why Democrats are feeling confident, with David Plouffe predicting to Politico Friday that Clinton is already sitting on 347 electoral votes — a landslide over the 270 needed to win.
"I think the campaign is fundamentally over,"
said veteran Democratic strategist Bob Shrum. "It formed in August,
post-convention. Trump always had a very steep mountain to climb. And
instead of climbing the mountain, he keeps falling off it."
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