The election is over. The result is amazing. Actually, it is amazingly good. Without a doubt, it was close. As I write this, the popular vote nationwide is actually showing a lead for Hillary Clinton of 0.1%, but as we all know, the president is elected state by state, so President Elect Donald Trump is the clear winner. The GOP has held the senate even though the field was extremely difficult for the party. The GOP has held the house of representatives with just a few losses. Republicans actually picked up a net of three new governorships. I have yet to see meaningful final numbers on state legislative seats, but there does not seem to have been a major change there. For all the endless stories about how Republicans could never again win a national election due to demographic changes, the GOP just won a major victory in a national election. So much for the pundits.
Just think about what the results show with regard to all that the media had told us.
1. The polls were wrong. The national polls had Hillary up by about 3-4%. It ended up a tie. The polls had Clinton winning in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan and New Hampshire. Trump either won or is leading in each of those states. There were a host of senate races also where the polls were wrong.
2. The early voting crowd was also wrong. In the last week, I heard over and over that the surge of Hispanic voters in Florida had given the state to Hillary Clinton. Of course, there really is no way to know that; it was just an assumption that votes can be determined by ethnicity. This racist assumption by so many in the media/Democrat establishment has been disproven.
3. Crowd size and enthusiasm do matter. Anyone who watched political news in the last three months has seen one pundit or another tell us that crowd size does not matter. Enthusiasm does not matter. All that matters is the so called "ground game," something that Hillary and the Democrats could do much better than the GOP. Remember some of the favorites? How about the Democrat ground game in Philadelphia locks Pennsylvania into the Democrat column? How about the Democrat ground game in Ohio could make up the 2-3% deficit that Hillary saw in the Ohio polls? (Clinton lost in Ohio by almost three times that margin.)
4. Then there's the story line that Donald Trump would never be presidential. Anyone who stayed up to see Trump's speech last night knows that is untrue. Trump was gracious in victory and reached out to those Americans who did not vote for him.
So, as one of the millions who was still watching as President Elect Donald Trump spoke to America last night, all I can say is I'm tired, but I'm very very happy. Now comes the hard part. Let's all wish President Elect Trump well.
Just think about what the results show with regard to all that the media had told us.
1. The polls were wrong. The national polls had Hillary up by about 3-4%. It ended up a tie. The polls had Clinton winning in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan and New Hampshire. Trump either won or is leading in each of those states. There were a host of senate races also where the polls were wrong.
2. The early voting crowd was also wrong. In the last week, I heard over and over that the surge of Hispanic voters in Florida had given the state to Hillary Clinton. Of course, there really is no way to know that; it was just an assumption that votes can be determined by ethnicity. This racist assumption by so many in the media/Democrat establishment has been disproven.
3. Crowd size and enthusiasm do matter. Anyone who watched political news in the last three months has seen one pundit or another tell us that crowd size does not matter. Enthusiasm does not matter. All that matters is the so called "ground game," something that Hillary and the Democrats could do much better than the GOP. Remember some of the favorites? How about the Democrat ground game in Philadelphia locks Pennsylvania into the Democrat column? How about the Democrat ground game in Ohio could make up the 2-3% deficit that Hillary saw in the Ohio polls? (Clinton lost in Ohio by almost three times that margin.)
4. Then there's the story line that Donald Trump would never be presidential. Anyone who stayed up to see Trump's speech last night knows that is untrue. Trump was gracious in victory and reached out to those Americans who did not vote for him.
So, as one of the millions who was still watching as President Elect Donald Trump spoke to America last night, all I can say is I'm tired, but I'm very very happy. Now comes the hard part. Let's all wish President Elect Trump well.
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