One more comment about the Electoral College: One possible outcome for tonight is that Biden could win the Electoral College relatively narrowly despite a fairly solid win in the popular vote. (This is just one of many possible outcomes, of course) The Electoral College has traditionally done the opposite and exaggerated narrow outcomes — for instance, turning a 51 percent victory for Reagan in 1980 into a red map (over 90 percent of the Electoral College). This change in its function shows how institutions can change even when nothing about the formal rules of the game have been altered.
