US Presidential electoral map 2016 predictions: Clinton dominates Trump in various polls

Presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has taken an emphatic lead in the predictive electoral maps for the 2016 United States presidential elections.

Freedom's Lighthouse saw Clinton topping the polls in various key swing states with 227 votes while Trump takes 180 with a toss-up of 131. This includes figures for electoral-vote-rich California, Illinois, and New York.

The latest 270 to Win poll also reflects the same picture with the 68-year-old Democrat taking the lead with 253 electoral votes to Trump's 191. It has been a tight race in Ohio and Pennsylvania where Quinnipiac found it tied at 40-40 in the former state which has backed every election winner since 1964, the longest streak ever. In the latter state, there was a slight lead by Clinton, in a state in which every Democrat has won since the 1992 presidential elections. She went on to get an eight-point lead over Trump in Florida.

A very recent poll taken for the Portland Press Herald and the Maine Sunday Telegram gave Clinton a seven-point lead in Maine.

The NPR Poll took secure leads for Clinton in the states of Rhode Island, New York, California, Illinois, Delaware, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, Washington, D.C., Washington state, and Vermont, which took an even higher 279 to 191 electoral vote lead for her.

Nevada, Florida, Michigan, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, and Virginia are seen as democratically leaning, while the states of New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, and Minnesota are taken to be likely for Clinton.

Trump, on the other hand, is said to hold secure leads in the southern states, Arkansas, Alabama, Wyoming, West Virginia, Alaska, Kansas, Idaho, Louisiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Montana, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas. Arizona and Georgia are shown to be leaning toward a Republican vote. Indiana, Utah, and Missouri are also considered likely for Trump.

The states of Ohio, North Carolina, Colorado, Iowa, and Pennsylvania are still viewed as being toss-ups.