Who Believed in Trump, and Who Is to Blame

The Times unveiled a new feature on its Web site last night, for the Presidential election. Each time a new segment of the vote was reported, anywhere in the United States, algorithms reweighted the chances that each candidate would win each state, and the election. The animation that depicted these chances was a jittery little needle on a dial indicator, and early in the evening the joke was that its constant, frantic quiver was going to drive everyone nuts. By the end of the evening, the needle was only pointing in one direction, toward Donald Trump. It was a magnificent little creation, and a way to understand how votes in one place changed the significance of votes in another. So much care must have gone into its creation; the endeavor seemed so painstaking and earnest. And it measured the ascent to the Presidency of a brute with authoritarian tendencies.

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