FOUR years ago this week the prevailing expectation across the United States, based on most polls and pundits, was the victory of Democratic Party candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. But Republican hopeful Donald John Trump snatched several “swing states,” mostly with small margins, to amass 306 electoral votes against Clinton’s 232 and become America’s 45th president, despite losing the popular vote by 2.1 million.
Today, Trump is again expected to lose and, if most voter surveys prove prescient, by a margin greater than in any election defeat since Republican Senator Bob Dole lost to Democratic reelectionist Bill Clinton in 1996. But even Democrats and their supporters, along with independent analysts and pollsters, still see a small chance for another Trump upset.
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