An Electoral College map released Thursday from the University of Virginia Center for Politics projected Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton winning the November election by a landslide.

UVA altered its map to reflect recent changes in the likely political leanings of certain states, but Clinton still easily came out on top.

Larry Sabato, the director of the UVA Center for Politics, described what he said made the map different from most polls, which reflect the more fickle tendencies of the electorate. The UVA electoral map focused on "the electoral fundamentals and fixed elements of politics that predetermine most votes, especially partisanship, demographics, and strong forces shaping the political landscape."

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump saw a brief bump in the polls after the party's convention in July, but that lead slipped as Clinton regained ground after the Democrats' convention the following week.

Here's the UVA map:





(Photo credit: UVA Center for Politics)

A candidate needs 270 electoral votes to win the presidency. This map, which squared with an earlier map from UVA that showed a similar result, put Clinton way ahead of that total.

See Hillary Clinton at the DNC:



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Trump, however, didn't even come close.

Sabato noted that about nine out of 10 voters had already made up their mind about who they were voting for, but it was unclear how many of them would actually show up at the polls on Election Day. He estimated that only surprise events like a recession or terrorist attacks on domestic soil could upend his predictions.

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And even though the map might be a more reliable indicator than other polls, the 2016 election has been so wild and unpredictable that it was still hard to predict with any certainty what will happen in November.

"It's essential to note that the love-hate feelings for Trump and Clinton are eye-popping, and this unusual factor may distort expectations," Sabato wrote. "Trump in particular is such an outlier or aberration that many standard election models by political scientists may not be able to project the election results as well as they usually do."

See Donald Trump at the RNC:



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