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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumPlouffe tweeted final margin closer to 400 than 270! 😮
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David Plouffe @davidplouffe
Final margin closer to 400 electoral votes than 270.
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Plouffe tweeted final margin closer to 400 than 270! 😮 (Original Post)
helpisontheway
Oct 2016
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Renew Deal
(81,871 posts)1. Hillary would need TX to get to 400
Pretty hard without it
tenaciousdem
(104 posts)2. final countdown
I hope it ends up above and beyond 400. we need a total wipeout! clean up on aisle 3, please.
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)5. agreed - to send a message to future demagogues
and to the world.
welcome to DU.
whatthehey
(3,660 posts)3. That just means 335 plus
Which is not a given but certainly not implausible.
Cicada
(4,533 posts)4. Plouffe leaked election results a month early in 2012. Off the record, but Morning Joe confirmed
Joe said Plouffe gave him the exact results a month early and Halperin nodded his concurrence when Joe said it.
The Democratic analytics shop takes voter registration rolls and creates big data files on every fhucking voter in the country. Just like Google knows what internet ads will work with me, the Dems know what the vote will be.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)6. what's 870 and 2.447