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Originally Posted by ernie
Except it's a one way street from everything I can see. Red states are turning purple. Blue states are staying Blue and often strongly so.
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In he 538 article, Enten shows that the map hasn't really been altered other than every state has become bluer this election by a bit which shifts a few over the line. No state is appreciably redder.
This likely has implications for future races in that there is no reshuffling of the polarized electoral map. It's only that every state is elastic to the national numbers which are heavily tilted to Clinton this cycle. Should the candidates be more typical next time, the electoral map will look like 2008 again.