[af_vet_1981]

If one reads Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign, it is written that the Clinton campaign knew they were going to lose early in the evening. The precincts in Florida portended what would happen in states with similar precincts.

Around 7:45 on election night, when Hillary Clinton and her aides still thought they were headed to the White House, troubling news emerged from Florida. Steve Schale, the best vote-counter the Democrats had in the state, told campaign officials they were going to lose the biggest battleground in the country. Yes, Clinton was doing well in some places, but Donald Trump’s numbers in Republican areas were inconceivably big.

The Clintons got the news first that something was desperately wrong from an operative in Florida.

“You’re going to come up short,” Schale said, stunning aides in Brooklyn who were, until that moment, comfortably cradled in the security of their own faulty analytics.

[Vigilanteman]

I had that feeling at 6:15 am, 45 minutes before we could legally open the polls in our precinct in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. The first voters arrived to wait in line patiently.

I'd seen that at 6:50 am or even as early as 6:45 am, but never at 6:15 am

We have a lot of retired voters in our precinct who like the bragging rights of being first in line. But these 6:15 am voters weren't retirement age. Typically, we might have a dozen or so voters in line when we open. This time, there was at least four times that many.