They were projected to lose the presidency thus SC majority and tie in the house , and instead they won all three with extreme positions . They cheated with gerrymandering but saying they didn ' t win is delusional . <| sep |> Curious about that . I ' m looking for the source , but I read an article about Spotify that just did some basic math . It assumed the entire music industry was $ 15 billion . Then , it assumed a certain maximum percentage that spotify could get for example , they aren ' t getting a chunk of merch sales at concerts . Then , it took the basic terms of their licensing deals 70 % to record companiespublishers and calculated how much would be left . Then , it used some average margin numbers from the software industry . Basically , the conclusion was that unless spotify pivots to get out of the music business , they will never make back their profit for their investors . There just aren ' t enough overall dollars for spotify to get enough of them . Add to that that their losses are getting larger as they scale not just overall losses , but losses per customer grew in 2015 , too . That means they aren ' t seeing the economies of scale that a growing business needs . Add in the fact that some of their competition is both Apple AND Google , two of the most cash rich companies in the world , and things don ' t really look that good for Spotify . Sorry I don ' t have the source . If I can find it , I will add a link .