BYRON YORK: IS DONALD TRUMP HEADED FOR A LOSS OF … ORDINARY REPUBLICAN PROPORTIONS?

The bottom line is that the Clinton-Trump numbers in some critically important states are more in line with the Obama-Romney race than they are with some sort of doomsday blowout suggested by the national poll numbers. And that suggests that after all the noise and drama and weeping and gnashing of teeth, Trump could be headed for a loss that looks, not like a party-ending calamity, but an ordinary Republican defeat. Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio or Jeb Bush might have lost in much the same way.

Assuming York’s scenario plays itself out to its logical conclusion (or the results are even more calamitous to Trump), “What Happens After the Election?”, Claire Berlinski asks and answers.