US Presidential Election Series: Battlegrounds changing to Clinton’s peril

The very map of the battleground states, which are considered to be crucial to win the White House and have a tendency to change side unlike states like California, which is a strong Democratic State, are changing and they are changing to the peril of Hillary Clinton.

Hillary Clinton, herself downplayed the risks of changing polls saying that she has said from the beginning that it would be a tight race but it is clear from the polls that she is slowly losing it. Trump is now trailing her by 1.5 points according to realclearpolitics.com’s average of polls, compared to 7.9 points trail, little more than a month ago.

Just two weeks ago, Donald Trump was leading only in Iowa, according to RCP average among 13 battleground states, now he is leading in Georgia, Missouri, Arizona, and Ohio. In Iowa, his lead  has grown from 0.8 points to 4.3 points. In addition to that, Colorado, which was previously considered as Clinton leaning, is now a battleground state. Two other states, Connecticut and New Jersey, which were considered as likely Clinton, are now seen as Clinton leaning.

In addition to that, in the eight battleground states, where Clinton is leading, her leads are solid (above 3) in Virginia, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and Colorado. In North Carolina and Nevada, her leads are just 0.6 points and 0.8 points.

It looks like, those who counted Trump out, would have to eat their words.