Littwin: Be afraid. Very afraid
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Once, we had a choice.
We could imagine Donald Trump in the White House when the news comes of a Chelsea-like explosion, one that has all the hallmarks of terrorism but with not yet enough information to say for sure.
Or we could tell ourselves that the idea of Donald Trump in the White House is beyond imagining – and leave it that.
But now that we’re seven weeks out from Election Day, there is no longer any Option 2. If you doubt it, just check in, as I do far too often, with the Nate Silver prediction model, which today gives Trump a 41 percent chance of becoming president. That’s four chances in 10. For the math-impaired, that’s dangerously close to 50-50, a coin flip.
To read the rest of Littwin’s column, visit http://www.coloradoindependent.com/littwin.

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