At a Democrats Abroad event in Tel Aviv, two people give a half-hearted clap as the news comes in that Hillary Clinton took New Mexico.
That lackluster applause is rapidly followed by someone muttering a four letter word, as CNN runs through the ways Donald Trump can win the election.
The number of “Democrats in Israel” wearing Clinton paraphernalia holds steady at one, but another organizer has walked in with some homemade signs they’ll use to track which states are going to which candidate.
One Clinton supporter whips out his phone, refreshes FiveThirtyEight, the popular projection site, and shows me the screen.
“How is she at 51 percent,” the supporter asks. Earlier, she’d had closer to a 75% chance of winning, according to the site.
Another, watching the results come in, turns away from the screen, “I can’t watch this anymore.”
— Judah Ari Gross
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