Just mutterings on B-J.
I would glance at the numbers at various places, but didn't do any figuring on my own.
(sigh)
J has been furious at Hillary for nearly a year. She's still for Bernie.
My friend T in Dayton has been saying the most nasty things about Hillary for a year or more too. He was at the Trump rally in Dayton where some guy tried to rush the stage. He would have voted for Chuthlu over Hillary...
The polling was a disaster. Too many people made too many assumptions, plans, devised strategies, etc., assuming the polling was right. "Hey, Obama has record approval, the economy is doing well, women always pick the winner and women will turn out for Hillary, ..." Conventional wisdom was reinforced by the polls in a feedback loop.
This is our Brexit. A lot of people are going to be hurt, needlessly.
Hillary ran a very good campaign. I don't see that anyone else could have run a better campaign. Would someone else have won? Maybe, but I don't know who. Bernie? Tired old man who's been in Washington for decades with no real accomplishments to his name who can point and yell about Corruption™? No. O'Malley? A former city mayor and governor from a very blue state? No.
Biden? A man who has a history of running at the bottom of the pack, a man who has been a Senator for decades? No, but maybe he would have done better. Maybe. But, let's not forget, he didn't run for family reasons.
I'm furious at the press right now. NPR has had stories for the last 12 hours or so about Trump's policy proposals and how the world is freaking out about it with their tut-tut voices. The NYT and WP have screaming headlines about "Trump Triumphs". Where were the stories about policy over the last 12 months? Buried under a mountain of e-mails it seems...
I really thought that if the polling were off it would be because she did better than expected. I should have realized that something was wrong when a year or more ago there was talk about picking up 10+ seats in the Senate and over the last few months that had turned into just barely having a majority. Ticket-splitting doesn't happen much any more (if it ever did).
Maybe Donnie will be the nation's Jesse Ventura - a 4 year experiment never to be repeated. But a majority can do a huge amount of damage, especially when it can flip the SCOTUS on the first day...
Man, has 2016 sucked. And it's still not over yet!!
Box is right that we have an opportunity in 2018 and 2020 - this is all on the GOP now. But did we really have to burn the village in order to save it?
:-<
Cheers,
Scott.
(sigh)
J has been furious at Hillary for nearly a year. She's still for Bernie.
My friend T in Dayton has been saying the most nasty things about Hillary for a year or more too. He was at the Trump rally in Dayton where some guy tried to rush the stage. He would have voted for Chuthlu over Hillary...
The polling was a disaster. Too many people made too many assumptions, plans, devised strategies, etc., assuming the polling was right. "Hey, Obama has record approval, the economy is doing well, women always pick the winner and women will turn out for Hillary, ..." Conventional wisdom was reinforced by the polls in a feedback loop.
This is our Brexit. A lot of people are going to be hurt, needlessly.
Hillary ran a very good campaign. I don't see that anyone else could have run a better campaign. Would someone else have won? Maybe, but I don't know who. Bernie? Tired old man who's been in Washington for decades with no real accomplishments to his name who can point and yell about Corruption™? No. O'Malley? A former city mayor and governor from a very blue state? No.
Biden? A man who has a history of running at the bottom of the pack, a man who has been a Senator for decades? No, but maybe he would have done better. Maybe. But, let's not forget, he didn't run for family reasons.
I'm furious at the press right now. NPR has had stories for the last 12 hours or so about Trump's policy proposals and how the world is freaking out about it with their tut-tut voices. The NYT and WP have screaming headlines about "Trump Triumphs". Where were the stories about policy over the last 12 months? Buried under a mountain of e-mails it seems...
I really thought that if the polling were off it would be because she did better than expected. I should have realized that something was wrong when a year or more ago there was talk about picking up 10+ seats in the Senate and over the last few months that had turned into just barely having a majority. Ticket-splitting doesn't happen much any more (if it ever did).
Maybe Donnie will be the nation's Jesse Ventura - a 4 year experiment never to be repeated. But a majority can do a huge amount of damage, especially when it can flip the SCOTUS on the first day...
Man, has 2016 sucked. And it's still not over yet!!
Box is right that we have an opportunity in 2018 and 2020 - this is all on the GOP now. But did we really have to burn the village in order to save it?
:-<
Cheers,
Scott.