I knew who was going to win instinctively every election since Reagan. I only misread the situation one time in '92. I felt in my gut Bush was going to win. The Perot factor messed that one up.
This isn’t about intuitive feelings, it is about why people voted the way they did and where the support came from for the candidates. I dreaded a hillary victory, and on that Tuesday in November I was confident that Trump would carry Texas easily I did not have that same confidence for the rest of the country. When early returns that evening showed Trump performing well in some of the northeastern states that trend democrat I began to have some hope that he could pull off the upset. For the record, I voted for Trump because I had at least a semblance of a hope that his judicial appointees would be better than hillary’s would be — and an absolute confidence that they couldn’t be any worse.