It's going to be messy and the media is going to manipulate it as much as they can unless like you said above, that it is so much of a landslide that jumping the numbers would be counterproductive.
I find it amusing but also pathetic that big cities (including my own) are boarding up their windows in preparation for "peaceful but mostly fiery protests." I've never understood bashing up a Starbucks over an election. What did they do?