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Three days after the presidential election, liberals are grappling with the reality of President-elect Donald Trump, while conservatives exult about an unexpected end to Democratic control of the White House.  Neither side correctly anticipated the outcome on Election Day. And there are still several key questions that have not been definitively answered.  What happened to Democratic turnout?

Donald Trump delivered on his promise to flip the Democrats’ electoral hold on the industrial Midwest. Across swing states — and others previously thought to be safe for Democrats — Trump colored dozens of counties red that hadn’t gone Republican in decades. Of the nearly 700 counties that twice sent Obama to the White House, a stunning one-third flipped to support Trump. Trump also won 194 of the 207 counties that voted for Obama either in 2008 or 2012. By contrast, of those 2,200 counties that never supported Obama, Clinton was only able to win six. That’s just 0.3 percent...

Boy was I wrong. All along I had Trump at between 62 and 64 million votes. Our overly optimistic friend "Sundance" at www.conservativetreehouse.com was completely off the charts unrealistic, with a projection of 73 million. Yes, Trump won the electoral college---as I predicted---big. As of today I think he is at 304. Another 720,000 votes in seven states would have given him an additional 43 electoral votes. But unfortunately I was right in another prediction: the margin would be large, but each state would be decided by a small fraction of voters. Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina, and Florida all hinged...

Barbara Lodise was exactly the kind of voter Democrats thought would lift Hillary Clinton to a historic win Tuesday: a white wife and mother in the suburbs, a professional with two degrees - and a Republican. In a campaign where Donald Trump drew scorn for having called women slobs, unattractive, and dumb, the thinking went that even party faithfuls like Lodise would abandon the GOP nominee and rally behind the first female with a realistic chance to be president, one painting herself as an advocate for women and children. What they didn't consider was that the 55-year-old Langhorne voter's distaste...

(snip) The vast majority of Americans, 84%, say they accept Trump as president, and 58% do not believe the election process has permanently harmed the nation. Whether those figures are typical for most elections is unclear, although they are almost identical to what Gallup measured in 2000, when the outcome was in doubt until the Supreme Court sided with Bush...

discuss Obama comments on live news conference will he attack Trump or be conciliatory?

Democrats always had the White House — until last week. As their majorities in Congress slipped away and they ceded the lead in governorships over the past six years, President Obama and his top lieutenants comforted themselves with the changing demographics that they said would make it impossible for a Republican to win the top job. Donald Trump punctured that belief in stunning fashion last week, sending Democratic voters scrambling to make sense of their losses and igniting a new battle for the party’s soul that promises to last for months.

You mad bro?

‘After eight years of the Obama administration, the American people have chosen a new direction for our nation. President-elect Trump has a significant opportunity to bring our nation together.’WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made the following statement today regarding the Presidential election of Donald J. Trump:“I congratulate President-elect Trump on his historic election. After eight years of the Obama administration, the American people have chosen a new direction for our nation. President-elect Trump has a significant opportunity to bring our nation together.” "It is my hope and intent that we succeed in the years ahead by...

Sunday, November 13, 2016 American Uprising Posted by Daniel Greenfield (This article first appeared at Front Page Magazine during the night of the election. It deserves to be repeated, regularly.) This wasn’t an election. It was a revolution. It’s midnight in America. The day before fifty million Americans got up and stood in front of the great iron wheel that had been grinding them down. They stood there even though the media told them it was useless. They took their stand even while all the chattering classes laughed and taunted them. They were fathers who couldn’t feed their families anymore....

Pro-TPP, open borders Speaker Paul Ryan still thinks he’s the GOP boss in Washington DC. He’s not. Donald Trump is. Paul Ryan told Jake Tapper on CNN the Ryan House of Representatives will support border security but not mass deportation.

Published on Nov 12, 2016 November 12, 2016 - Judge Jeanine Pirro FULL Emotional Opening Statement Donald Trump Elected President ! - Fox News

Man, there is just no end to Gore’s hubris. From his website, which I’ll pass on linking to for obvious reasons …"Last night President-elect Trump said he wanted to be a president for all Americans. In that spirit, I hope that he will work with the overwhelming majority of us who believe that the climate crisis is the greatest threat we face as a nation. I wish him well in these efforts and intend to do everything I can to work with him and his administration to ensure that our nation remains a leader in the global effort to...

U.S. EPA employees were in tears. Worried Energy Department staffers were offered counseling. Some federal employees were so depressed, they took time off. Others might retire early. And some employees are in downright panic mode in the aftermath of Donald Trump's victory. "People are upset. Some people took the day off because they were depressed," said John O'Grady, president of American Federation of Government Employees Council 238, a union that represents thousands of EPA employees. After Election Day, "people were crying," added O'Grady, who works in EPA's Region 5 office in Chicago. "They were recommending that people take sick leave...

There were a lot of losers in this election, well beyond Hillary Clinton and the smug, incompetent pollsters and know-it-all, groupthink pundits who embarrassed themselves. From hacked email troves we received a glimpse of the bankrupt values of Washington journalists, lawyers, politicians, lobbyists and wealthy donors. Despite their brand-name Ivy League degrees and 1 percenter resumes, dozens of the highly paid grandees who run our country and shape our news appear petty and spiteful -- and clueless about the America that exists beyond their Beltway habitat. Leveraging rich people for favors and money seems an obsession. They brag about...

Wednesday, November 09, 2016 The Obama Era is Over Posted by Daniel Greenfield Obama and his supporters loved talking about history. His victory was historic. They were on the right side of history. History was an inevitable arc that bent their way. The tidal force of demographics had made the old America irrelevant. Any progressive policy agenda was now possible because we were no longer America. We Were Obamerica. A hip, happening place full of smiling gay couples, Muslim women in hijabs and transgender actors. We were all going to live in a New York City coffee house and work...

American Uprising by Tyler Durden Nov 9, 2016 5:20 PM 0 SHARES Submitted by Daniel Greenfield via TruthRevolt.org,This wasn’t an election. It was a revolution.It’s midnight in America. The day before fifty million Americans got up and stood in front of the great iron wheel that had been grinding them down. They stood there even though the media told them it was useless. They took their stand even while all the chattering classes laughed and taunted them.They were fathers who couldn’t feed their families anymore. They were mothers who couldn’t afford health care. They were workers whose jobs had been...

In the time of the Roman Empire, when a General won a major battle for Rome, he would hire or press an Auriga into service. An Auriga was a slave, albeit a very literate one, who would whisper into the General's ear "Memento homo"(remember you are only a mortal man) during the celebrations and processions. I will serve as Free Republic's Auriga, today. While I am ELATED that Donald Trump has seemingly cinched victory, I am forced to remind us all that America has just entered it's most dangerous time in the entire history of the country. The most dangerous...

Tuesday, November 8, 2016 was a very historic day to be in New York City. I am fortunate enough to work there and my office was right in the middle of it all. During Tuesday, I walked between Trump Tower and the Midtown Hilton (where Trump's victory party was being held) and took some videos which I will post below. I also have other videos later in the week that I might post in this thread as well as some still photos. Crooked Hillary Clinton was having her "victory party" at the Javitts Convention Center just about 20 blocks...

<p>Throughout the course of the 2016 election, the conventional groupthink was that the renegade Donald Trump had irrevocably torn apart the Republican Party. His base populism supposedly sandbagged more experienced and electable Republican candidates, who were bewildered that a “conservative” would dare to pander to hoi polloi by promising deportations of illegal aliens, renegotiation of trade agreements that “ripped off” working people, and a messy attack on the reigning political correctness.</p>