Landslide: Reuters Projects 326 Electoral Votes For Clinton Matt Vespa  | October 24, 2016 As we get closer to Election Day, there will be a new flurry of stories showing how Hillary has an 85+percent chance of winningâand that her Electoral College count is going to be a landslide. Itâs over, basicallyâthatâs the theme. For Reuters, theyâre projecting Clinton to win 326 electoral votes, with a 95 percent chance of winning: In the last week, there has been little movement. Clinton leads Donald Trump in most of the states that Trump would need should he have a chance to win the minimum 270 votes needed to win. According to the project, she has a better than 95 percent chance of winning, if the election was held this week. The mostly likely outcome would be 326 votes for Clinton to 212 for Trump. Trump came off his best debate performance of the campaign Wednesday evening but the polling consensus still showed Clinton winning the third and final face-off on prime-time TV. Trump disputes those findings. And some national polls had the race tightening a wee bit this week though others had Clinton maintaining her solid lead. But the project illustrates that the broader picture remains bleak for Trump with 17 days to go until the Nov. 8 election. Trump did gain ground in South Carolina where his slim lead last week expanded to seven points, moving it into his column from a toss-up. Unfortunately for him, he lost ground in Arizona, which is now too close to call. On one hand, some in the GOP will rejoiceâthis means the end of Trumpism, the ignominious defeat of the alt-right. Well, Iâm not so sure these folks are leaving just yet. Second, Clinton would be president. Why is that a good thing? Itâs a nightmare for the country. If this ends up being the end result on Election Day, it will not be without a sense of irony. When Mitt Romney decided to get on the Never Trump train, the billionaire lashed out at him, blaming him for losing a winnable election. In 2016, Reutersâ Electoral College map closely resembles that of 2012 (Romney got 206 electoral votes), and this was yet another winnable election for Republicans that we pissed away thanks for nominating flawed candidates, but I donât want to get into âI told you soâ gamesâthough thatâs a point of inevitability post-election Iâm afraid. Again, how many epitaphs have we written for this political campaign? Every time Trump looks like heâs about to collapse, he regroups. He survives. It very well could be a drumming by Clinton, but we shall reserve judgment until Election Day. We have polls showing him trailing by four, six, nine, and now twelve points. Some have it at a virtual dead heat (i.e. LA Times), while other have him leading by a point (Investors Business Daily). Now, that doesnât mean that all is well either. Texas and Arizona are now in the toss-up column, Florida is moving to the Democratsâall of this spell disaster on November 8. If we lose Florida, forget everything elseâthe jig is up. Even Trump campaign manger Kellyanne Conway said that theyâre behind. But the RNC seems to have delved into fantasyland to combat these developments, with Chairman Reince Priebus saying that Trump is going to do better with black voters this cycles than with McCain and Romney, with the added notion that Trump is going to win because âpeople have had enough.â Yeah, letâs not kid ourselves; Trump is going to do poorly with Hispanics and black votersâand we donât know if heâs going to win the election. This spin makes the Right look desperate and embodies everything that liberals think about conservativesâthat weâre detached from reality. There is one theory that Trumpâs campaign seems to be hedging on, which is that thereâs a swath of voters who donât like to be polled, and if a firm contacts themâthese voters tell lies to protect themselves. Itâs a fear Democratic pollsters have this cycle, that the people they poll, like the oneâs saying theyâre either voting for or leaning towards Hillary Clinton, are really voting for Trump. Itâs our version of the shy Tory theory, in which the 1992 election in the U.K. projected a Labour win, only to end with the Conservatives winning the most votes ever cast in a British election. Itâs impossible to gauge, but if this is the case, it shows how embarrassing these two candidates are for voters for either party. Right now, itâs all about stopping Clinton. And 45 percent of Republicans seem pretty dead set on making that happen, as this cohort has said they will not accept the election result that ends in a Trump defeat. 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