IT'S DOWN TO GROUND GAME AND THE DEBATES.

++Nancy LeTourneau writes today"A Tale Of Two Ground Games" comparing Hillary Clinton's in Ohio to Trump's sort of there. 
She sums it up by Trump's statement this week,"I don't know whether we need a get out the vote campaign." 

++Then down to Florida where Hillary Clinton has more staffers than Trump min all of America. She added one more program in a section of Florida which has seen an influx of Puerto Ricans fleeing the economic despair on the Island. She spoke about how she would deal with that island's financial woes. Then Dana Millbank writes today in the Washington Post that Trump has barely one operating office in the whole state.

++Trump's New Jersey headquarters closed this week. 

++When I was in "Trump" country in Pennsylvania,there was a huge professionally done highway sign paid for by local entrepreneurs. What I learned was that younger factory workers were voting for Hillary.

++Now some mention has been made about the Trump campaign buying the analytics fro0m the Obama campaign. The RNC said this was meant to get out the vote for Republicans who haven't voted for a while--much as Obama did in 2008 for Democrats who had missed a couple of elections. From the RNC comments they are using this for the day of the election. In 2008, Obama used it throughout the primary and the election so that there would be someone to take the voter to the poll. You have to have field staff to make the software work.

++Dana Millbank says that with 90 days left it is unclear whether the Trump campaign can or will do the necessary things to make anything work. Trailing in key battleground states, you need an ongoing operation and can't parachute in at the last minute to pull victory from defeat.

++Nate Silver writes today about what a Hillary Clinton landslide will look like.