Hillary's Poll Numbers Are Improving (But There's No Improving the Electoral College)

by Dan SavageSensible people everywhere spent the last week freaking out about the election. Donald Trump was closing the gap to Hillary Clinton in the polls—inching closer! pulling even! within the margin of terror!—and for a suddenly we were within one half of one horsemen of the Apocalypse. But the latest poll numbers show Clinton maintaining a solid lead among likely voters, and Slate's Trump Apocalypse Watch is back down to a less-terrifying-but-nevertheless-terrifying two horse