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Unless something crazy is happening — and of course, 2016 is the year of crazy — Hillary Clinton is going to win tonight. ‘Hillary’s got this,’ I heard a former White House staffer say this morning, with breezy confidence. ‘We had a fright last week, but it’s better now.’ That is the shared view of experts and the pollsters here in Washington DC and abroad.
From Washington, Freddy Gray and Marcus Roberts discuss whether Clinton has it in the bag
The level of early voting, the huge surge in Hispanic turnout, and a late uptick in black voters all seem like good news for the Democrats. In nearby Virginia, still considered a battleground state, voter turnout is already looking high — there are huge lines outside the polling booths in Arlington, Virginia, a heavily black area of a closely fought state.
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