In my last column, I looked at the election through the lens of the old children’s radio show Let’s Pretend — how things would look if it turned out that Donald Trump ends up winning the election.

That would have required lots of pretending until recently. Two weeks ago Hillary Clinton led Trump by 6 percent in the realclearpolitics.com average of recent polls. That lead is now 1.9 percent. RCP state polling averages then had Clinton ahead by 333 to 205 electoral votes. Now the margin is 273 to 265.