Posted on 12/21/2016 4:58:01 AM PST by Kaslin
For months, we listened as the polls, the media, and the general public opinion all vocally favored Hillary Clinton to win this year’s presidential election. The transition was already starting to happen, and even the most confident Trump supporters couldn’t help but start preparing for a loss. Yet, Trump ended up with 306 pledged electoral college votes to Clinton’s 232. It wasn’t the biggest landslide in election history, but it was an unprecedented margin of victory for a candidate that was almost written off.
But was this a fluke? Was it the strange alignment of random variables that allowed this to happen, or was Donald Trump destined to win from the beginning?
The What-If Scenarios
Since being confronted with the election’s surprising results, liberals and media figures have been scrambling to pinpoint a root cause for the upset, as if it was some single trigger that caused a reversal of momentum. These people have been playing out various what-if scenarios to uncover what, if anything, could have gone differently.
For example, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid recently suggested that the FBI Director James Comey’s actions during the election were responsible for both the presidential and congressional election outcomes. Comey ignored intelligence of Russian interference, and arguably mishandled the investigation of the Clinton email scandal. Had he not taken these actions, Clinton would have had a stronger lead.
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Trump is like dropping a fusion bomb on DC, but without the fallout.
I think Hillary Clinton was destined to lose the election more than Trump was destined to win it. Oddly enough, she probably would have beaten any other Republican nominee in 2016, though.
And that, sir, is the central question. A country without borders, without border controls, without immigration standards is not a country. Or soon will not be one.
The Lord saved our ass again.
There was a time when companies would take on a promising candidate and train them. That was back in the bad old days of loyalty, from both employer and employee.
That could still happen, but people in my business tell me that the “loyalty” issue isn’t the biggest impediment. A much bigger problem is that many prospective employees need to be trained in things that used to be considered pretty basic even for high schoolers a few decades ago. Employers aren’t going to waste their time with people who need a complete remedial education.
Yup not a country - How is Germany making out these days? Merkel was Hillary’s hero too.
What character flaws and what abrasive personality? How can you judge a man you never met? Why would you say such a thing about someone you don't know? Do you believe all that you read? My goodness man, grow a pair... He is as good a man as any, if he was any better we would have to crucify him.
It’s easy to talk “destiny” after the fact. Sorry, but there is no “destiny”.
Sweden? Belgium? France? California?
What about Hillary’s character flaws and Hillary’s abrasive personality??
Personally I’m afraid that if the Democrats had chosen a better snake oil salesman (and, in particular, if they had fully embraced Bernie’s free college scam to bring out the Millenials) they still could have overrun us at the polls.
The ratio of takers to makers is still way far out of whack.
You will just have to wait fir my book “How Trump Won” out Jan. 18 in e-form and in hardcover in Feb.
G_D?
“Comey ignored intelligence of Russian interference”
That keeps popping up as a proven fact, but no one as of yet has offered any evidence. It is sort of rolled out as a natural fact, like the sun rises in the east.
“...white males felt robbed of power and fought back to try and retain it.”
Nonsense. White males voted for Trump because of his campaign pledges and issues. It is strange that no one, and I mean, no pundit, will ever come close to admitting that.
I wonder how many on left prayed for Hillary to win. <1%
Yes, by God who has the power over everything and who specifically says that He is the cause of the rising and falling of kings.
Fair question. Some folks do not feel right using the vowel O in our name for Heavenly Father. In the Hebrew, He gives His Name to Moses as YHWH, sometimes translated as Jehovah. However in the original language, the vowels are omitted and the pronunciation was not made, thus the exact vowels are unknown.
Some faithful believers persist in the practice of omitting the vowel in modern day and I just choose to honor and respect their practice.
Had hiliary won there would very soon be no United States.
I’m willing to ascribe the Electoral vote to something of God’s will in that I believe God played the pivotal role in the founding of the US.
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