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Who in their right mind would vote against their own interests in those states and vote for Don the Con.
It's like putting a gun to your head and pulling the trigger to get rid of a headache!
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My husband laughs at me because I sit there election night with a spreadsheet (and usually DU) with the TV in the background as things come in. I can do a lot of quick calculations based on trends, but often my gut knows first based on many years of experience. Much like you say - I get the patterns quickly. I used to do metrics and stats for a large multinational. It's almost like a puzzle and I enjoy it.
I remember when it dawned on me that she was going to lose by the razor-thinnest of margins electorally.* I didn't bother re-doing my numbers; I just knew it. And I thought how convenient it was that he just squeaked by her in just the right combination of states.
I am still convinced something went on, though I can never know what or where. I will never truly accept this election as completely valid, as you say, for much the same reason.
* on edit: her margin electorally was not razor-thin, but the number of votes that allowed his 302 electoral count - ~80,000 votes, IIRC - was beyond belief, and spread across multiple states. So I misstated in my original thinking. But this is what I meant. 
When we had the presidency and both houses of congress why did we do NOTHING about this? Because of $, just as you said. And the gerrymandering was far from unknown. I would really like to "have a few words" with Harry Reid.
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