“The thing that we are waiting to see though is that most of this notion that this race is tightening is coming from national polls, national tracking polls and so forth [...] but we are holding out hope that [...] we will get a lot more polls for the remainder of the campaign.”— Nate Silver, fivethirtyeight.com
“Strategy No. 4: Drop an opposition research bomb on Trump Speaking of which, I often see reporters speculating or predicting that the Clinton campaign is sitting on one or two major pieces of opposition research about Trump, which they’ll leak to the press at a time of maximum strategic advantage. T…”— Nate Silver, fivethirtyeight.com
“Strategy No. 3: Let it go This is the opposite of strategy No. 1. Here the Clinton campaign lays low after calculating that the story will die of its own accord. And it may be what we see if the campaign doesn’t see much impact from the FBI news in public and internal polls by early next week. The C…”— Nate Silver, fivethirtyeight.com
“Strategy No. 2: Rile up Democratic partisans by attacking Comey and other targets While Clinton herself hasn’t yet attacked Comey’s motivations, her top surrogates and advisors like John Podesta are already doing so. There’s the risk of hypocrisy here given that some of these same Clinton surrogates…”— Nate Silver, fivethirtyeight.com
“Strategy No. 1: Demand more details from Comey This was Clinton’s initial strategy during her brief press conference on Friday, where she said that ‘the American people deserve to get the full and complete facts immediately.’ This approach carries a couple of advantages. First, Clinton may reasonabl…”— Nate Silver, fivethirtyeight.com
“I’ve heard from people who wonder whether Friday’s news – that FBI director James Comey was investigating additional emails that may be pertinent to Hillary Clinton’s private email server — might have come too late in the campaign to be reflected in the polls, and therefore in our forecast, before E…”— Nate Silver, fivethirtyeight.com
“One group within North Carolina that I'm really keeping my eye on are college educated whites. It's a group Republicans have traditionally won, but with Trump on the top of the ticket they're behaving differently, they are moving more toward the Democratic column.”— Clare Malone, fivethirtyeight.com
“It probably can’t be said enough that Trump repeatedly condoned violence toward protesters at his rallies.”— Nate Silver, fivethirtyeight.com
“We’re almost done. After two debates full of memorable moments such as Donald Trump saying he’d put Hillary Clinton in jail and mentioning his 10-year-old son as a potential expert on computers and cybersecurity, the final presidential debate of 2016 is upon us. And Trump needs to win it.”— Harry Enten, fivethirtyeight.com
“Donald Trump’s strategy in this campaign has been fairly clear from the beginning: Drive up Republican support among white voters in order to compensate for the GOP’s shrinking share among the growing nonwhite portion of the electorate. And Trump has succeeded in overperforming among a certain slice…”— Harry Enten, fivethirtyeight.com