Lessons To Be Learned

I admit, to be one of the many who fell victim to the innocuous if yet masterfully deceitful polls, none of which ever gave Trump a true chance of winning

Well, first, I want to congratulate every single one of you out there who voted for Donald Trump. I forgot the last time in my life where I felt so electrifying overjoyed – one which typically comes with something great happening albeit, something totally startling and unexpected such as was Donald Trump’s triumph on November 8th, 2016 – a date which shall go down in the annals of history as the day the United States of America was reborn.

In the weeks preceding the election, I had written a couple of articles, to wit, “Hope I am Wrong” and “Game Over”, both of which, I concede, offered a rather gloomy outlook on Trump’s chances of winning the elections – I admit, to be one of the many who fell victim to the innocuous if yet masterfully deceitful polls, none of which ever gave Trump a true chance of winning the presidency. That, coupled with an overwhelming crusade of negative publicity, made me somewhat succumb to the public opinion’s misguided assessment of Trump’s chances of winning this election.

I believe trump already has a lock on 2020. He has the bully pulpit now to smash the media. He has millions of people he can bring on board. I doubt many of his supporters will bail unless he turn out to be a total snake, which does not seem to be the case.

All the GOP need to do is back Trump and give the USA good government. Clean, law abiding effective Government that gets OUT of the people way and 2018 and 2020 will take care of themselves.

Democrats all ready have a massive problem in 2018. They are defending a whole lot more Red State/Purple state seats that Dems won on Obama’s coattails in 2012.

Pretty much. If he can make good on what I see as his three top-line promises: bring back jobs through renegotiating trade deals and lowering taxes, secure the border and deport criminal aliens, and dispatch ISIS onto the dustbin of history, I think you’ll see a 1984 style landslide of epic proportions.

That would generate peace and prosperity that would be broadly shared across the entire nation, but if he really wants to solidify his position, putting a bit of extra effort into reviving the industrial economies of Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania would place that region solidly in the red column the way the South is now.

The coup de grace would be do whatever’s necessary to not only revive that region as a whole, and those states as a whole, but to extend that revival all the way into the inner-cities of Des Moines, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Milwaukee, Gary, Indianapolis, Detroit, Cleveland and Philadelphia. He does that and breaks off half of the black vote from the Dem’s, and it’s over, GOP governing majority for a generation, under an ideology of pure “America first” patriotism.

I was in the same boat. The polls and the election odds were correct in 2012, and the polls were correct in the latest Canadian election, throwing out a good Prime Minister in the midst of a good economy.

For those that were off 3%, 4%, 5% I don’t know what to think. Egg is deservedly all over Fox News for its poll, and they should apologize for it.

But those at 6% such as Monmouth, Reuters and WSJ, I can’t conclude that they were dishonest. I am sure they have some “scientific” explanation, but really it was a manufactured lie, just like labor statistics are.

Going forward, only the TIPP, and Rasmussen to some extent, were correct. Going forward, I will no longer trust pollsters. I will no longer see the election odds market as some sort of Holy Grail. I got to say some people made a killing (betting on Trump) but many more lost money. And I will ignore the RCP average.

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