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Election 2016 Thoughts JANUARY 20, 2017 UPDATE: he has taken the oath of office. Our long national nightmare and Constitutional crisis is over. Now the cleanup of Obama's train wrecks can commence under PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES DONALD J. TRUMP. To my fellow Americans: Whether you like him or not, whether you voted for him or not, for at least the next four years, HE IS YOUR PRESIDENT!!! Get used to it, stop whining, obstructing and fake protesting, and get to work to make America great again. 'Nuff said! Original post follows. ---------------------------------------------------- There has already been much written, and there will be much yet written, about the U.S. Presidential Election of 2016. The outcome is clear: Most of the country, geographically, has had enough of "establishment" elites telling them what to say, who to vote for, and determining their outcomes. Thus, instead of electing the first female President (who has severe character issues among her many flaws) with too much political experience, they elected a less-flawed man with no political experience at all, the first non-career-politician elected President since 1952 (General Eisenhower) and the first ever with no prior political or military service. And he spent far less on his campaign than any national candidate of the past 40 years.  Congratulations to the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.   The Electoral College final projected totals are Trump 306, HRC 232. Actual elector voting from December 19: Donald Trump 304 Hillary Clinton 227 Bernie Sanders 001 (faithless WA D elector) Ron Paul 001 (faithless TX R elector) John Kasich 001 (faithless TX R elector) Colin Powell 003 (faithless WA D electors) Faith Spotted Eagle 001 (faithless WA D elector) There is no one factor in how it happened, but safe to say it proved yet again the wisdom of the Constitution's framers in using an electoral college to keep the Presidency from being solely a popularity contest, and protecting the citizens of less-populous states from being totally dictated to or bullied by the larger ones (such as New York and California). What we do know is that Mrs. Clinton brought many of the factors upon herself, and has no one to blame but herself, and the media and aides who aided and abetted her actions. Among the factors: 1.) Lack of respect for the law. The word "scofflaw" was coined to describe lack of respect for the law, and it applies to her -- especially when it came to conducting official State Department government business almost exclusively from an unclassified personal server not under agency control, as well as using it to e-mail classified material, another no-no. And let us not forget about the lies she told under oath regarding Benghazi, in which her disrespect for Embassy staff under her "leadership" cost four American citizens their lives. What difference did it make? Plenty, for many voters. 2.) Lack of respect for her opponents. Just the fact alone that she set out to sabotage Senator Bernie Sanders in her party's primary showed this flaw. Then she totally underestimated Trump and the broad-based support he has. 3.) The POLL-tergeist and total liberal media arrogance. Out of all the polls conducted during Campaign 2016, only three correctly predicted the Trump victory. The others so arrogantly discounted anyone supporting Trump that most people polled would not tell them who they were voting for! Likewise, the arrogance in the liberal media demonstrated itself on the Clinton News Network and most others in that they were SO<b> obsessed </font></b>with taking down Trump they gave lip service to HRC's serious character flaws and actions. One report said 91% of their coverage of Trump was negative. Not so for HRC, to their disgrace and shame. Even traditional print media like The New York Times were so blinded by their own arrogance that they failed to do their job in reporting the real news. 4.) Lack of respect for the voters. HRC's "basket of deplorables" debate comment and its corresponding attitude alienated many millions of citizens. This élitist attitude is all too typical of her party in particular, and the political establishment in general who will do anything to get your vote and then do nothing to help you or honor their promises to you. This attitude also permeates those cities, states and college campuses who seek to flaunt the laws on immigration as well as the "Not my President" people who refuse to accept the reality of Trump's Presidency, unlike Republicans who accepted BHO's Presidency despite him not being their President, as well as all the sore loser liberals staging nasty protests January 21. The DC march was headlined by the 3M of liberal losers: Michael Moore and Madonna. 5.) Republicans showed up, Democrats didn't. In a reversal of 2012, even though many Republicans disliked Trump, they voted for him, unlike 2012 when the evangelical wing of the GOP mostly stayed home, thus assuring Obama's reelection. Larger percentages of the demographic groups HRC needed to retain from Obama's wins (e.g. Blacks, Hispanics, and millennials) voted for Trump or stayed home. 6.) The Third-party candidates. I successfully predicted a few months ago how a reverse-Perot effect would win the election for Trump. Back in 1992, HRC's husband won election because Independent candidate H. Ross Perot siphoned votes away from Republican incumbent President George H. W. Bush, and Green Party candidate Ralph Nader's votes in Florida were enough to swing the state's electoral votes and the Presidency in the 2000 election to George W. Bush, to the dismay of Al Gore. This time, three third-party candidates siphoned away about 6.1 million votes, mostly from HRC. (Gary Johnson -- Libertarian, about 4.3 million; Jill Stein -- Green, about 1.3 million; Evan McMullin -- Independent, about 470k). And there were also about 1.75 million "undervoted" ballots in 33 states and DC with no selection for President (two of them from former President Bush 43 and his wife). So while in the popular vote, about 62.5 million "voted" for HRC (including a lot of non-citizens not legally entitled to), about 69.05 million did not (including about 61.2 million who voted for Trump). Thank goodness for the Electoral College. (Vote tallies updated Dec. 14.) 7.) The "Forgotten" Man/Woman. Many white men and women, mostly non-college educated, registered and voted for the first time in their lives. HRC ignored them, trying to win solely among all the non-white ethnicities. 8.) The "Silent Majority". President Nixon never took them for granted. HRC did. 9.) Selling access/favors. Not since Martin Luther posted his 95 theses on the church door at Wittenberg detailing how the Catholic Church of the 1510s was literally selling salvation (called indulgences by the church) have we seen such a well-documented case of selling access, in this case through The Clinton Foundation taking cash from foreign governments, in what many consider to be pay-for-play while she was Secretary of State and for future political favors once HRC was elected to the Oval Office. This investigation is very much still active, and may pose further legal problems for them. IMHO, those who donated to the Clinton Foundation expecting presidential favors are due hefty refunds. LOL The appearance of selling access was too much for some to take. Thanks to Mr. Assange for exposing this. 10.) Language. Trump had to the courage to call radical Islamic terrorism exactly that. Obama would not. HRC only did to try to placate people, and it was not very sincere. The only way to solve problems is to identify them for what they are, and NOT by using euphemistic, politically correct language. And last, but certainly not least: 11.) Lack of a compelling message. HRC was so into bashing Trump, that she communicated no compelling vision or message other than hate, and pulled out every dirty trick in the party bag to bash Trump. They cannot win arguments logically, so their financiers, like George Soros, hire and pay professional protesters (and bus them to protest sites on charter buses!) to keep the hate drumbeat against Trump going; BTW, those are Federal crimes called inciting riot and sedition (see Title 18 United States Code, Chapter 115). As for my state, Montana has a very bad habit of electing Democrats to the Governorship (and once in a while to its House or Senate seats) even when electing Republicans to the other state-wide offices. It happened again this year, with the narrowest reelection of a Democrat (Steve Bullock), while all the state-wide offices were retained by the GOP, with Secretary of State and Superintendent of Public Instruction returning to GOP control. The legislature will have expanded GOP control in both chambers. BTW, Gov. Bullock is facing his own e-mail scandal, this stemming from unlawfully deleting official e-mails from his time as Montana's Attorney General before being elected Governor in 2012. Expect the investigation to be re-energized... As for the percentage of the undervoted ballots mentioned above, Montana led all the 33 states there, odd in a historically GOP state. |
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