While an interstesting yarn, Neal, at the end of the day, basic population trends and demographics make it almost entirely prohibitive of any R, and especially Trump winning a national election.

Allow me a second to expound on this thought: if one were to take just the West coast and the NE Seaboard, and handful of swing states (Ohio, MI, ILL, WIS and PA) these states would represent almost 2/3 of the electoral college. So, what's the common theme of all these states, are all thoroughly democratic. This not even putting into play states like Florida or Georgia. The fact that remains, is that the Ds have over a dozen ways to win the White House, and converse is that the Rs have to basically sweep all swing states or take CA or NY-- never going to happen.

Drilling down even further, unless Trump can carry the Hispanic and Black vote with approximately 37-38 percent of their vote (as a point of reference, Mitt only obtained in the low 20s); he is currently in the single digits. No way..