Siena Poll: Hillary well ahead in “blue” NY

Move over, Monday Night Football: the main event on September 26 is the first debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

Trump has ramped up his presence on the airwaves somewhat, going from spending nearly nothing to shelling out $5.2 million in August and running 7,457 broadcast television ads in five states through the month. Trump and Clinton are virtually tied when it comes to terrorism and homeland security (44% to 43%). He also holds an advantage in terms of favorability with 48 percent viewing him favorably, compared with 32 percent who view him unfavorably.

“Our expenditures on advertising, our expenditures on people, our expenditures on everything are a tiny fraction”. Key “swing states” like Florida, Ohio, North Carolina, Iowa and even Nevada are moving into Trump’s column.

The reason I do manufacture things overseas – you know, I have to do this, there is no choice – because they’ve devalued their currency so much that our companies are out of business for the most part.

Back on August 3rd, the liberals’ favorite polling wunderkind, Nate Silver, gave Trump only a 3.6% chance of winning.

According Silver’s FiveThirtyEight site, Hillary’s odds have dropped precipitously in the last month. Online polls and other surveys showed that Trump “won” all of those contests, but more importantly, none of them ever did anything to dent his leads over the rest of the GOP field.

This reinforces something I’ve been saying for over a year. From the rather wide electoral vote lead and adequate popular vote lead projected for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton just weeks ago, the race is today projected to be a popular vote dead heat and an electoral vote lead for Clinton that is anything but certain. She is viewed unfavorably by just over half of voters and does not have much support beyond registered Democrats, said Siena spokesman Steve Greenberg. Like Clinton, Trump also raised tens of millions of dollars more for the party. “She’s going to win it by grinding it out”. Why, ramp up the spending, of course.

“I don’t want Donald Trump to win”, a 53-year-old female Clinton supporter said. The AP cited Kantar Media’s political ad data that showed Clinton broadcast 35,714 television commercials across 11 states, in comparison with Trump’s 7,457 in five states.

Trump also gave his campaign another $2 million in August, bringing his general election contributions to $6.5 million and his self-funding total to $54 million since previous year. If so, there is a simple way for him to show the American people before the first presidential debate that he truly means what he says: He can reach into his personal fortune and spend the kind of money on his quest for the White House needed to maximize his chances of success.

More than two-thirds, 71 percent, say the public’s need for information about personal records such as health history and tax returns are more important than a candidate’s right to privacy. What else can she do?