Josh Kraushaar: “Here’s a sobering sign of the state of our politics: It’s becoming very plausible that Donald Trump, despite running one of the worst presidential campaigns in modern history, could lose the presidential race by the same Electoral College vote margin as Mitt Romney. A campaign that doesn’t believe in television ads, offers insults instead of policies, and lacks a full-fledged campaign staff, could end up performing nearly as well as a high-character candidate who ran a respectable losing campaign against President Obama.”
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