Trump is also down by double digits in Pennsylvania, a state Republicans haven't won since the 1980s but which has nonetheless been viewed as a perennial pickup possibility.

If the election were held today, and Clinton won the swing states where she's currently leading by 10 points or more, along with states that have traditionally voted Democratic and are currently viewed as safe, she would win easily.

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And so Clinton has started to divert her resources to new terrain. The Washington Post's John Wagner and Ed O'Keefe reported Tuesday that Clinton is now starting to target Georgia and Arizona, two states that have voted for the Republican candidate for president for the past two decades. (In Arizona, there has been only Democratic win there since Harry Truman: Bill Clinton, when he ran for reelection.)

The races in those states are looking as close as the contests in Virginia and Colorado were expected to be. The Real Clear Politics average of polls shows Trump and Clinton in a dead heat in Arizona and Clinton up by 1 point in Georgia -- both states that Mitt Romney won in 2012 by 9 and 8 points, respectively.

Clinton's success in the usual swing states, and Trump's struggles in some typically red states, is dramatically reshaping the battleground map. So we put together a new one. Here's where the race's fiercest fighting is likely to be, given the current data:

Of course, as we mentioned earlier, winning Republican-led states would be icing on the cake for Clinton, who can still win the presidency without them. If the election really is fought in these states, that doesn't necessarily mean it will be won there. It probably means that it's already just about over.

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That's because, again, if Clinton wins just one or two of the traditional swing states where she's currently leading by healthy margins, she becomes the president-elect. For instance, if she won Florida and held onto the 19 mostly coastal states (and the District of Columbia) that Democrats have won for the past six presidential elections, she wouldn't need to claim any others. She would already have more than the 270 electoral votes she needs to win.

This thing is far from over; three months is an eternity in politics. We can only look at the numbers -- and the campaign infrastructure -- as they exist right now in each state, and take note of the overall dynamic on the ground.