It pains me deeply that a lot of people did not bother to vote (and a lot of them, at the moment, risk losing their new/first-time health care coverage). Biden recently said that he saw that coming in the rural area of Pennsylvania (near Scranton) where he was born: He could read the place well because he is familiar with it. It was a foreseeable phenomenon that a lot of working class liberals were so-so with their candidate and that many of those who had voted for Obama were turning to trump. A foreseeable phenomenon that some important people did not see.

Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight.com saw it coming in the stats: He kept warning us in the weeks before the election that she could very well lose the electoral vote while winning the majority of votes nationwide because her lead in too many important states like PA, OH, MN, FL was too thin. It was not a sure thing, but it was one of two strong possibilities. I am sure they did not listen.