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“The winner's margin of victory also matters. If it's a squeaker, that will make the lessons learned for both parties much murkier.” quote by Mara Liasson — Download Open image

“The winner's margin of victory also matters. If it's a squeaker, that will make the lessons learned for both parties much murkier.”

Mara Liasson

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This year [2016], however, polls show [Hillary] Clinton winning white college-educated voters by double digits.

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On the other side, you have the conservative intelligentsia - magazines like National Review, which has a big anti-Trump issue; Weekly Standard editor, conservative talk show hosts - they're mounting a big anti-Trump effort, pro-Cruz effort because they think [Donald] Trump is dangerous and he's not qualified to be commander in chief.

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If she Hillary Clinton win just two of the three big battleground states - North Carolina, Florida and Virginia - she will have shut off Trump's path to 270 electoral votes, even if he wins the other toss-up states.

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