Blame Florida: Its still HRC's election to lose. And it is still going to be Florida's fault.

President Hillary Clinton is still going to be the next President of the USA. Nothing can change that now. You may convince yourself to say the following things about THE DONALD
1) But you (and experts) said that about the primary
2) I don't know, I think it's rigged for him
3) He's a billionaire, of course he'll win
4) You can't trust politics, he could still win this

To which I would respond
1) There are complicated math and stats reasons to show the difference between this point in the Donald's primary win and the general election. Essentially, the same group of people have liked him from last summer until now. That group was large enough to make him the Republican nominee. It is definitely not large enough to have him win a general election.
2) It's not rigged for him. There is no secret cabal of billionaires who will rig this for him. There is a very public cabal of Billionaires, who are known and written about, that are not supporting him. These people have decided elections in the past, and they think Trump is unstable. Read a summary of Game Change 2012 to read their names, but a few are: the Koch brothers, Sheldon Adelson, Foster Friess, Paul Singer, Robert Mercer, Woody Johnson, Norman Braman, Ken Lagone, Joe Ricketts, Peter Thiel, Carl Icahn, Andrew Beal, Darwin Deason, Wilbur Ross
Of this list: Icahn, Beal, Deason, Johnson, Thiel are the only ones to have donated directly or indirectly to Trump. It is difficult to overstate how significant this is. The Trump campaign is running on a shoestring budget, with their first TV ad launching a couple days ago, and every state complaining about a lack of resources.
It isn't rigged.
3) See above. He doesn't have enough money to prop this up himself.
4) You can, actually, trust the voting process. Each campaign will spend hundreds of thousands on lawyers to monitor voting stations. It's pretty funny to watch this team actually, I've seen some that just sit outside in lawn chairs with coolers and a bbq all day because voting irregularities are beyond rare.

So, how will Florida blow this for Hillary?
Here's four stories that demonstrate how bad Florida is at this, taken at random:
1) They'll design the ballots so that they can't be scanned: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/26/palm-beach-county-florida-election_n_2025447.html
2) They'll decide not to count the votes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_election_recount)
3) They'll run out of ballots (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/reports-of-voting-problems-surface-in-florida-primary/)
4) They'll just lose ballot boxes (http://www.nbcnews.com/id/26856896/#.V7nc5pgrK70)

She'll still win, but something really stupid is going to happen in Florida. Maybe they'll end up casting their electoral votes for George Bush again.

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