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Old Posted Nov 7, 2016, 2:40 PM
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I think the extremely vocal Trump supporters - you know the ones who are calling for an armed response and such - are actually a pretty small minority. They seem louder and crazier than they are because of the internet and their own internal echo chambers on twitter, reddit and 4chan. Not to mention the hundreds of bots they have set up repeating Trump slogans. As for the white supremacist groups and such - if they didn't do anything when Obama was elected I doubt they will now.

In reality I expect a few protests and the usual whining online, but nothing substantial really. I also don't give Trump a very high chance of winning at this point - we are likely just seeing the tightening of the race which happens close to election day. Nate Silver is being very conservative in his predictions because in the chance he is wrong it will discredit his entire model.
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