Oct 31, 2016: Media confused as to why Trump is stumping in Michigan and Wisconsin

[in2deep]

Media was basically laughing at him for going to states that were "lost"

this is possibly the most efficient, most well run campaign in the history of politics :wow

game recognize game :wow

http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/why-is-donald-trump-in-michigan-and-wisconsin

WHY IS DONALD TRUMP IN MICHIGAN AND WISCONSIN?


cording to the polls, Donald Trump has been trailing Hillary Clinton badly in Michigan and Wisconsin for months. In Michigan, two surveys taken last week showed Clinton leading by seven percentage points (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/mi/michigan_trump_vs_clinton_vs_johnson_vs_stein-6008.html). In a third poll, the margin was six points. It’s a similar story in Wisconsin, where the past three polls have shown Clinton ahead by four points, six points, and seven points (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/wi/wisconsin_trump_vs_clinton_vs_johnson_vs_stein-5976.htm).
Why, then, with just more than a week left before Election Day, is Trump campaigning in these two states? Surely he would be better off camping out in places where the polls are closer, such as Florida, Nevada, North Carolina, and Ohio—that’s what many Republican strategists (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/campaign-strategists-say-trump-packed-schedule-makes-no-sense) believe.
The Trump campaign, though, is operating according to its own logic, or illogic. A few weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal reported that the campaign believed that its best chance of victory (http://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trumps-new-attack-strategy-keep-clinton-voters-home-1476221895) was to eschew the middle ground, seek to create a bigger-than-expected turnout among Trump’s core demographic, and bank on
Democratic turnout being low.


The big challenge facing the Republican candidate is that, in recent elections, as many as half of all white working-class voters haven’t voted at all. But that, conceivably, is also an opportunity. If these voters could be persuaded to show up at the polls in large numbers—much larger than the pollsters are expecting—it could make a big difference, especially in places where there are a lot of them.

[in2deep]

Hence the Trump campaign’s last-minute effort to expand the electoral map to the Upper Midwest. Asked why Trump scheduled two events in Michigan for Monday, a senior adviser to his campaign told the Detroit News (http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2016/10/28/trump-returning-michigan-monday/92913154/): “Our numbers show this race being a dead heat with Hillary really hitting a ceiling in the state.” That sounded like boosterism. But Trump and his coterie aren’t visiting Grand Rapids, Warren, and Eau Claire just for the fun of it. They are trying to rally their own.

[in2deep]

CHUCK TODD: This is our new battleground map. As you see we still have her over 270. So we're saying here -- so the most important thing to know about this map is right now this is where we see the battleground, which means that if you watch Donald Trump's numbers here, he can win Florida, he can win North Carolina and he can win Ohio and still be short. That's important.

He can win Arizona and still be short. He can win Utah and still be short. So, he's in Michigan. Why? He's got to break the big blue wall. That's Pennsylvania, Michigan or Wisconsin. One of these three he's got to put into play. That's why he's trying something. Wisconsin yesterday, Michigan today. You'll see him more in New Mexico.

The numbers as you can see, they don't add up. New Hampshire is not enough. Getting one more out of Nebraska is not enough. That's why he's got to somehow break this. I think of the three, it's Wisconsin that might be the most fluid. We got a poll out there today later this afternoon.

[in2deep]

CHUCK TODD: I think the Clinton campaign is a little bit nervous obviously and I think they're starting not to trust even their own numbers a little bit. And the fact is they haven't spent a lot of time in Michigan and if you recall Michigan caught them off guard during the primaries...

STEPHANIE RUHLE, MSNBC: Bernie Sanders.

CHUCK TODD: Their polling didn't show him winning. Their polling always showed him closer than what the public polling did so there's been this concern. Look, Michael Moore is somebody that has been shouting from the rooftops that he believes that the entire industrial Midwest is more in play than the Clinton campaign thinks, he being a guy from Flint, worked a lot with the blue collar voters. He's been screaming from the rooftops. I think some of it is simply a little bit of paranoia, but you know what? You don't want to say why didn't I go? You don't want to have any regrets.

[hater]

amazing