NPR: OK, fine, it looks like Trump has a viable path to 270 after all

As the polls have sped in a pro-Trump direction over the course of the past week, Hillary loyalists and their media servants (but I repeat myself) have insisted that regardless of what you see in national polling, the electoral map is simply too difficult for Trump to actually give him a viable path to 270 electoral votes. Our rejoinder has simple: That's true until national trends become so strong that state numbers start to follow, and suddenly the realities of the map change. I don't know how sustainable Trump's current momentum is, but I do know that if it continues for long, no reading of the electoral map can save Hillary. George W. Bush won 286 electoral votes in 2004, which means you've got at least enough states out there that are open to going red that a combination leading to 270 is at least possible for Trump. It's just a matter of whether his national strength can bring those states along. Up until today, no dinosaur media outlet had acknowledged any specific scenario that might actually see Trump get to 270.

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