If just 1 out of every 100 Trump voters had vote instead for Clinton, we'd have a different president, and a completely different set of "lessons" we'd be taking from this election. Which just goes to show (a) how a few people, in aggregate, can actually swing an election, (b) how this is no more fundamentally a "Trump Nation" than, had the contrafactual happened, we would fundamentally have a "Clinton Nation," and (c) how fragile all those "lessons" being drawn actually are, no matter how firmly and confidently they are asserted.
What A Difference 2 Percentage Points Makes
Here’s the Electoral College map we’re going to end up with, assuming that every uncalled state goes to the candidate leading in the vote count there as of 4 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday. There’s…
