evidence: But one of the paradoxes of our electoral college system is that, while the popular vote margin of more than five million may seem like a landslide win, the vote margins that gave Biden the presidency are razor-thin. Flipping just a little more than 81,139 votes in four states would have changed the winner of this election. That is just over the margins that gave Trump the presidency in 2016. The vote count has not yet been completed and those margins could change, but they are unlikely to shift dramatically. The ballots counted on Election Day set the candidates up for a tight race, and some early battleground state calls sent signals that an expected "blue wave" would not materialize, meaning the race could drag on for days as votes were counted. Trump over-performed polling averages in Florida, winning by a margin of 372,000 votes, despite Biden’s focus on in-person rallies there in the final few weeks of the campaign. [...] Winning vote margins in non-battleground states