From WNYC Studios, I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Monday, December 2nd.

I noticed over the last few days that some updated exit polls from the election have come out now that almost all the votes

have been counted in the presidential race beyond those that were, you know, enough to call a winner

on November 6th. So with some downtime of my own this weekend, not on deadline for a show,

I thought I would take a deep dive into some of those numbers.

And so I did some reading. And I'm going to share with you some things that I read that

you might find interesting. First of all, and maybe most important, this was a close presidential

election, not a landslide and not necessarily a national realignment, as some people have called it.

The latest NBC news count of the total vote has Trump winning the national popular vote by

only around one and a half points, 1.6 points to be exact. Close.

An ABC News analysis, state by state, says if Harris had just gotten 1.8% more votes in Pennsylvania,

Wisconsin, and Michigan, she would have won the election.

That one is worth saying again. If Harris had gotten 1.8% more votes in Pennsylvania and in Wisconsin and in

Michigan, that little bit more in just those three states, she would have won the election.

So if nothing else, we can say we are a pretty evenly divided country as measured by this election.

Still, Trump got about 3 million votes more than he did in 2020, by the counts I'm seeing.

Harris got around 7 million fewer than Biden 2020.

So the decline in Democratic turnout remains probably a bigger factor than people who shifted

their votes, despite the shifts getting most of the headlines.

But some shifts did take place and are also important and contributed to Trump's percentage

point gain.

So now I'll give you some of the interesting specific results that I saw

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