I have to admit, Nate Silver was the only one to predict this could happen. Just three days before the election, he was talking about how his model showed like a 12% chance of Hillary winning the popular vote and Trump winning the EC. He was widely mocked for having such a low chance for Hillary to win in his model. I joined in that because I liked the results being spit out by Sam Wang’s model better. But I was wrong, and once again, Silver was right. He didn’t get the election right either, but that was due to polling errors, not his model. He is the only one who took that possibility into account though.
Certainly more so than Romney or McCain did before him. Trump won rust belt states that hadn’t gone for Republicans in three decades. He also came much closer in New Hampshire, Maine and Minnesota (other Democratic strongholds) than other Republicans have in recent memory.
This is true. That’s why we have a bi-cameral legislative branch. The House of Representatives has representation based on population and was meant to represent the people. The Senate has equal representation for each state and was meant to represent the states. Remember that until about 100 years ago Senators were elected by state legislatures, not directly by the people.
The theory was that, with this structure, everyone gets something. The founding fathers probably didn’t envision partisan gerrymandering of House districts.
