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It's time to grab America by the *****!

Choo choo.
 
Clearly, this is going to be a very long day.
 
shrubnose said:
It may be a long 8 years.

Obviously Trump has the support of a lot of America's voters.
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I'm still on the fence if Trump really has "the support of a lot of America's voters" or if enough of the voters were simply that concerned about Hillary. The reason I say that is there were some key districts in battleground States that did not perform very well for Hillary that Obama did much better with in 2008 and 2012.

I really screwed up my projections a month or so back. I assumed Hillary would win because of fear concerning Trump, it turns out Trump might have benefited from fear concerning Hillary.

The only thing I was right about, we will be talking about this election for a very long time.
 
OrphanSlug said:
I'm still on the fence if Trump really has "the support of a lot of America's voters" or if enough of the voters were simply that concerned about Hillary. The reason I say that is there were some key districts in battleground States that did not perform very well for Hillary that Obama did much better with in 2008 and 2012.

I really screwed up my projections a month or so back. I assumed Hillary would win because of fear concerning Trump, it turns out
Trump might have benefited from fear concerning Hillary.
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The only thing I was right about, we will be talking about this election for a very long time.
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Right.Plus a lot of voters desperately wanted change and they saw Trump as a person who would change a lot of things.Which I'm sure that he will.
 
OrphanSlug said:
I'm still on the fence if Trump really has "the support of a lot of America's voters" or if enough of the voters were simply that concerned about Hillary. The reason I say that is there were some key districts in battleground States that did not perform very well for Hillary that Obama did much better with in 2008 and 2012.

I really screwed up my projections a month or so back. I assumed Hillary would win because of fear concerning Trump, it turns out Trump might have benefited from fear concerning Hillary.

The only thing I was right about, we will be talking about this election for a very long time.
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I think it's both. He obviously does have a lot of support for him which, by itself, probably wasn't enough to win him the election. I completely understand the traditionally strong union states swinging for him. I'm actually more confused why everyone assumed it was part of Hillary's firewall.
 
Paperview said:
Hillary won the popular vote
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And that would matter if the United States were a pure democracy. Unfortunately for Hillary, she was trying to be president of a Republic. Perhaps she should have chosen a different country to run for office in. She already did something similar when she wanted to be a senator.
 
CycloneWanderer said:
And that would matter if the United States were a pure democracy. Unfortunately for Hillary, she was trying to be president of a Republic. Perhaps she should have chosen a different country to run for office in. She already did something similar when she wanted to be a senator.
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Please refer to the post I was responding to.
 
Paperview said:
No, Bush 41 and Bob Dole did not win the popular vote.
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You're right. Bill Clinton just didn't win the popular vote. He got less than 50% both times. The popular vote was split between Bush/Perot and Dole/Perot both times.
 
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