Hillary Clinton Leads Donald Trump, Electoral Ratings Before Tough Battleground Contests

Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton seems to be keeping a decisive advantage in the electoral college in November, strengthening its grip around the states of tilt while forcing Republican candidate Donald Trump way to defend a handful of typical GOP strongholds.

However, a narrow path still exists for Trump. Mix lives in Florida, New Hampshire, North Carolina and Ohio - and optimism that states like Pennsylvania, Virginia and Colorado could tip into play - allow supporters hope.

So ABC News dug through the history of the states voting, demographic changes and surveys head to head to expand the electoral assessments. ABC News' puts Clinton at Trump 272 electoral votes to 197, including both solid and supported states, which would give Clinton

enough States at this time in the solid, thin blue columns, with his hand the White House. Sixty-nine electoral votes are tracking in additional states. However, this election cycle showed that this race can be unpredictable, and Trump is committed to strengthening the traditional card and put several blue states into play. A candidate needs 270 votes to win the White House.

Solid Democratic

Despite the hopes of Trump 29 electoral votes of New York at stake in this election, is expected to shoot Empire State Clinton, and other bands reliable liberal trend of the mid-Atlantic. Most of the rest of the North historically liberal would probably remains solidly Democratic in November. In the Midwest, Minnesota and Illinois will probably deliver Clinton combined 30 electoral votes.

California, which has the highest percentage of electoral votes, at 55, has not voted Republican since George HW Bush in 1988. A recent poll, Clinton Trump leader shown in double figures, keeping the golden state safely in the Democratic column, and Oregon and Washington. New Mexico Democrat plans to vote for the third consecutive presidential election. Democratic support.

Seven states across western and other Rust Belt Clinton mountain 75 electoral votes are given, but Trump is the hope that he could choose from at least one of them. Colorado voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, and the growing Hispanic population in both states can keep these states in the blue column forever.

Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania are generally democratic states to be reliable, but the popularity of Trump among white working class can put these states in play A win would be a surprise for Trump. The Democrats have won every presidential race in Michigan and Pennsylvania since 1992 and since 1988 of Wisconsin.

It is also expected to Virginia, where he is the vice presidential selection Democratic Tim Kaine to tilt toward Clinton, after voting for Obama in 2008 and 2012. New Hampshire poll also shows an advantage of Hillary Clinton it. And investigations in Maine, another classic democratic state, showed the overall state of the electoral votes could be at stake.

Four states heads or tails, worth 69 electoral votes could tip the form of the election of Clinton, as Trump would probably have to win almost all states in order to reach the White House.  The states to watch The Buckeye State has voted for the winner of the White House every year since 1960.

Other states heads or tails of this year include a major electoral prize vote as Florida and North Carolina, both of which are decided by a few percentage points in the 2012 elections Nevada could also go either way in the presidential race this a rural area, which could be called Trump a single electoral vote - year as second congressional district could Maine.

Republican Trend

Georgia has voted for the Republican candidate in seven of the last eight presidential elections, but white voters are faster than a smaller proportion of active registered voters in the state. White voters accounted for 68 percent of registered voters in 2004, but now account for only 58 percent of registered voters, according to data from the Pew Research Center.  

solid Republican

Most electoral votes Trump probably come from historically Republican portions of the Great Plains, the West and Midwest as well as the Bible Belt, which extends from South Carolina to Texas, and has many social conservative voters and evangelical Christian.

West Virginia, which saw the unemployment rate rise with Obama, is expected to vote Republican for the  5th presidential election in a row, as Alaska, which has not voted for a Democrat since Lyndon Johnson in 1964.