by Chuck Todd, Mark Murray and Carrie Dann
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For Democrats who've been biting their fingernails over the last few
days, Wednesday was a good polling day. The Marquette Law poll, the gold
standard in Wisconsin, showed Clinton ahead there by six points. A trio
of Pennsylvania polls had her ahead by four to five points in the
Keystone State. And she was narrowly ahead in Florida and North
Carolina, though well within the margin of error. Add them up all, and
it was a (slight) sigh of relief for the Clinton campaign, as our sister
publication The Lid put it.
But they aren't out of the woods. A Colorado poll last night showed a
tied race, and Clinton needs both Colorado and Virginia in her column to
win without Florida, North Carolina, and Ohio. (A word of caution on
that Colorado poll, though: It has the Latino electorate at just 9%,
when it was 14% in 2012 -- and will likely be higher than that this
year.) And a New Hampshire poll out this morning shows Trump up one
point in the Granite State, which is the first survey to show Trump
ahead in New Hampshire since the summer.
So are things looking better for Clinton with the Comey news no longer
dominating headlines? Yes. You'd much rather be Clinton than Trump,
especially in the race to 270 electoral votes. But she isn't in the
clear just yet.
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Source: NBC News
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