Posted on 01/14/2017 6:03:29 PM PST by ColdOne
During last nights NBC Dateline special on President Obamas legacy, the outgoing Commander-in-Chief reflected on 2016 and the surprise he felt at Donald Trumps win.
He told Lester Holt that he thinks he and his team are pretty good at seeing things comingbut not Trumps victory. Part of that, Obama said, is due to the fact that the polling was so off.
He admitted there was a lot of disappointment at Hillary Clintons loss, as well as the broader loss for the Democratic party.
Obama conceded, I had trouble transferring my personal popularity or support to the broader cause of the Democratic party.
He said it was difficult for him to both run the country and rebuild the grassroots party apparatus his part
(Excerpt) Read more at mediaite.com ...
Psssst.....you don’t have personal popularity. You have fake polls.
Oh, and these:
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