Sunday/ down to the wire

The United States of America – and the world – will probably know in 48 hours who won the election.   As of right now, statistician Nate Silver of the New York Times award Clinton a winning 291.6 electoral votes (270 needed for a win), but man! there is still a 1 in 3 chance that Trump can win, according to his interpretation of the polls.  Other pundits point to the very large number of early voters, and it seems their vote favor Hillary Clinton.  The FBI announced today that its further investigation into possible improper handling of e-mails by Clinton was complete and that it yielded nothing new (so its findings of July, exonerating Clinton, stands): good news for the Clinton campaign, I suppose.  (The damage that the first announcement inflicted had been done, though).

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The latest projection of the New York Times’s fivethirtyeight.com of the outcome of the election. Florida with 29 electoral votes is a key state.

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