The presidential election ends — we hope! — Tuesday.

Below we offer our last ratings of the race, our look at the truly competitive states on the eve of this most unpredictable of elections. While we are moving two states in Donald Trump’s direction on this second-to-last day of the campaign, the overall map still clearly favors Hillary Clinton: She has 275 electoral votes solidly or leaning her way — five more than she needs to win the White House on Tuesday night. In fact, even if Trump holds all of the states either solidly or leaning his way and wins all three states currently rated as “toss-ups,” he is still seven electoral votes short of 270.

Our big change on the eve of the election is to move North Carolina from “lean Democratic” back to “toss-up.” From mid-September to mid-October, Clinton led in 19 of the 20 polls conducted in the state. But, of the nine most recent polls, four show Clinton ahead, three show Trump in the lead and two project a tie. Trump has a 1.4 percent edge in the RealClearPolitics polling average.

David Fuller's view

I imagine our American subscribers are looking forward to the end of this election campaign which seems interminably long.  I assume the view that if Trump cannot win Florida, which should declare shortly after 10:00pm EST, Clinton has won this election.  The Washington Post is calling Florida a “toss-up” in the article above.  Wall Street has bet on a Clinton victory this week following the FBI’s comment that there were no new findings in its review of her emails.   

Let’s hope for a clear result and a dignified conclusion to this election.