Only in America
by digby
… or some banana republic (although there’s not much difference anymore) would you see this:
And the guy with the red number is the winner.
They’re still counting votes too in place where Clinton is expected to gain even more. It’s just outrageous.
Yet that pathological liar and his minions are all running around saying they won in a landslide.
It’s the craziest thing I’ve ever seen.
It’s bad enough that it happened. But that it installed a corrupt sociopath and a band of right wing extremists is just too much to bear.
Update:
Just FYI: Nate Silver, who runs FiveThiryEight.com, calculated that “the average electoral college winner claimed 70.9 percent of the available electoral votes, which would equate to 381 electoral votes given today’s total of 538 electors.” So Trump’s 56.9 percent “is decidedly below-average,” he concluded.
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