maybe Obama's most important mark on the electoral map: because Virginia and Colorado are now solidly Dem-leaning states at the presidential level, the traditional biggies like OH and FL have the potential to be less decisive https://twitter.com/Robillard/status/1323664648051326976

one way to think about this: VA+CO+NV = 28 Electoral College votes, just 1 short of Florida's 29

Kerry and Gore lost all 3. Dems have not lost any of them since, & likely won't tonight.

adds up to a major structural shift on the map, even before you get to states like AZ and TX

now, Trump got around that in 2016 by breaking the Midwestern blue wall. the biggest question for him tonight – and for his party going forward – is whether that is likely to happen again or emerged from unique conditions of the last campaign.