Nate Silver of 538.com speculates on what a huge Clinton landslide would look like

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10. It is helpful!

The estimated margins, by which Hillary Clinton would need to win the U.S. Popular Vote, to flip and carry much-desired states (most especially and deliciously with Texas) are a helpful guide.

I would like to see, for 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, an electoral-vote score that reaches what neither Bill Clinton or Barack Obama achieved—400.

The four winning Republican presidential elections of the 1970s and 1980s were never under the 400 range in part because the map was transitioning. California, Illinois, Michigan, and New Jersey—to name four double-digit populous states—carried Republican every time, including for the unseated Gerald Ford in 1976, before eventually flipping (and now regularly carrying) in the Democratic column beginning in 1992 (for Bill Clinton).

We are overdue. The historical percentage of states carried by presidential winners is between 34 and 35. Democratic presidential nominees, since 1992, have averaged 12 electoral votes per carried state. (Carriage of 33 states would do it.) I would like to see Hillary Clinton get this back on track. And, to be blunt, Donald Trump is unworthy of carrying any more than 10 states. (And, with that, I am being generous. I am thinking of a variation on the winning maps of a 1950s Dwight Eisenhower and a 1964 Lyndon Johnson.)

We still have plenty more time.