How Clinton’s projected victory is the ‘Dewey Defeats Truman’ of the digital era

Even on Election Day, analytics site FiveThirtyEight and its founder Nate Silver, which accurately forecasted Obama’s victories in 2008 and 2012 – prompting questions over whether Silver was the most accurate contemporary pundit – pegged Hillary Clinton’s chances of winning the presidency at 71.4%. And it certainly wasn’t the only outlet predicting a Clinton victory.
In a blog post, Silver called President-Elect Donald Trump’s victory “the most