 And there's this baseball term that we've been throwing around in politics. A tie goes to the runner. The way polling now situates itself with the Electoral College being the decider, a tie in the popular vote, a tie in the polls tends to favor the runner, in this case, Donald Trump. There needs to be some type of gap in the president's favor for him to stand a chance of winning the Electoral College and not dragging down House and Senate Democrats at the same time.