re: #146 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I just can’t see an Electoral path for Trump to win. Take Obama’s 2012 map. That’s 332 EVs. Now have Hillary lose Ohio, Virginia, and Florida. That’s still 272. She’s not going to lose Virginia, so peel off Iowa and Nevada. That’s 273. OK, take away Colorado and Trump finally wins. Is it realistic that Trump’s going to win all those states? It’s hard to imagine.

Right. Show me the states. As I recall, the red states are so damn red these days it’s like a bit of a (D) gerrymander effect in the electoral college, where a Republican could plausibly get more of the popular vote than the Democrat and still lose in the electoral college. This is especially striking in view of the over-representation of sparsely populated states in the electoral college, which are mostly red.