A question for political junkies.

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7. It could be over real fast, but I expect the opposite.

There is an outside chance that Mrs. Clinton can pick up as many as 249 EVs east of the Mississippi, meaning that Colorado, New Mexico and Minnesota would make it a lock.

However, I don't expect that to happen, for several reasons. The most important reason is that television news is a circus industry now, beholden to ad revenue. I would not be surprised to learn after the fact that CNN agreed to keep the issue in doubt until after 9pm western in order to charge a higher ad rate in California.

Another reason is that Donald Trump is setting himself up to be the news networks' direct competitor, and he will be praying for a 2000-level fuck-up that he can use as his casus belli against the news networks. So they're going to take their time making projections--and projecting the enormity of Trump's defeat.

Still another reason is that, thanks to the fact that we have a naked micropenis Fascist in the race who has repeatedly alleged that the race is stacked against him, who has enlisted the help of unfriendly foreign governments, and who encourages a win-or-fight attitude among his hopelessly ignorant supporters, this election is even more of a national security issue than it normally is. It needs to be made clear that Trumpkins are a small and incompetent minority of voters, lest we face another 1860-type crisis.