Politico: “With Republican voters beginning to fall in line behind their presumptive nominee, the election is expected to be tight and hard fought in the battleground states the same way it was four years ago when a more formulaic candidate, Mitt Romney, was the GOP nominee — with key counties won or lost based on hyper-local organizing efforts mimicking precinct fights in local races.”
“Trump’s unorthodox campaign style, marked by personal attacks and contradictory positions, has many Democratic voters believing the match-up against Clinton will be something extraordinary, the likes of which the country has never seen before. That may be true in terms of the nature of the debate, but the recent set of polls foreshadow a more ordinary election that breaks along familiar party lines just like it did between Romney and President Obama.”