title: not kidding colleges give students safe spaces to cry over trump winthreaten students over protrump chalkings
text: email for republican politicians like ohio governor john kasich who refused to get behind donald j trumpit turns out trump was righthe didnt need you in spite of the massive media force who came out against him and the never trumpers from his own party who worked very hard to defeat him if obama was running against donald j trump today trump would have beaten him 
  its easy to glance at tuesdays popular vote  which with  percent of all precincts reporting shows hillary clinton with six million fewer votes than barack obama won in   and reach the conclusion that clinton lost the white house because she failed to turn out the democratic base but the truth is much more complicated while she underperformed relative to obamas  totals in several midwestern states  ohio michigan iowa and wisconsin  clinton ran virtually even with obama in the battlegrounds of pennsylvania north carolina virginia nevada and new hampshire whats more she far surpassed obamas  vote total in florida the countrys biggest swing state yet somehow while obama carried florida clinton lost it which brings us to an important question was donald trump just good enough to beat a bad democratic opponent on tuesday or does he deserve far more credit could he for instance have competed with the vaunted obama machine the answer somewhat shockingly is yes 
  a review of vote totals in the past two elections reveals that trump  would have defeated obama  in the electoral college disclaimer this obviously is an applestooranges exercise because no two elections are the same nor are any two electorates still unlike debating whether the  cubs would defeat the  yankees this is not an entirely abstract argument a comparison of their respective performances in the countrys most competitive states shows trump edging obama in a hypothetical headtohead matchup the math might seem impossible after all obama won nearly  million votes in  trump is currently at  million and should finish around  million which will actually be one million fewer votes than mitt romney won how then could trump have topped obama in the electoral college the answer republican turnout lagged in certain parts of the country but shot through the roof in the nations most critical battleground states lets look at them individually in descending order by population and do the electoralvote math the  totals arent yet final because not all precincts have reported 
  florida   evs   percent reporting 
  obama   
  clinton   trending on  fed up