Make note of this paragraph in the article you cited, E.

"A counter to the electoral-map projections showing Trump a potentially sizable drag on other Republican candidates came last week, when Quinnipiac University released polls from Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania. Clinton and Trump were neck and neck in Florida and Pennsylvania, and Trump led narrowly in Ohio."

Yes, I believe that any Republican candidate is in for a severe uphill climb in a national election but the Democrats have backed the biggest wildcard they could in Hillary Clinton. The more people see and hear her...the less they like her and often grow to despise her. She's a bad liar and as dishonest as they come with some serious issues when it comes to the American public trusting her.

Now, Trump's campaign team is an utter disaster. A true train wreck that appears to have no clue what they are doing. Top this off with Trump already having made economic statements that basically made him the most dangerous man in the world and the RNC despising him and...well...there should be no way in the world this guy should win. The thing is after Dubya's first 4 years as president were probably 4 of the worst years any president in our history has had we somehow, beyond all reason and rational thought, elected him to 4 more years.