The news media and election experts were surprised at Trump's winning the electoral college. For example, on the eve of the vote, spread betting firm Spreadexhad Clinton at an electoral college spread of 307-322 against Trump's 216-231. English political scientist Lloyd Gruber said, "One of the major casualties of the 2016 election season has been the reputation of political science, a discipline whose practitioners had largely dismissed Donald Trump's chances of gaining the Re…