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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Their thesis boils down to Trump was elected by racist whites who felt put upon and losing their place under a black president rushed out to vote while liberals disheartened by Bernie’s loss to the corrupt Clinton failed to vote. *Yawn*
Maybe a point to be said about apathy toward Clinton. Based on the title I thought maybe they were going to make a deeper argument about macro trends and Trump’s trajectory in life. “American Thinker” might want to change their title to “American Talking Point Regurgitator” if this is the level of their thinking.
81% of Evangelical Christians voted for him. Pastors all over America were behind him, beginning with Jerry Falwell. Trump was the first politician to recognize and say something about the Christians in America being ridiculed, demeaned and sued over basic religions convictions. The D party was going after Christians with zeal with very abusive actions.
When I saw the Obama Justice department in the Supreme court, after several lower court appeals, suing Little Sisters of the Poor for not contributing to the deaths of thousand more babies in the womb, I knew our country was going down the tube and would not get better.
With every victory the left had against Christians they celebrated. It was the homosexuals that applauded when Hillary called these fine Trump voters, deplorable and irredeemable, pretty much the icing on the cake of defeat, well a WH decree from their dear leader that all boys that feel like a girl that day may shower with our girls, or cut off funding for education for same children, also contributed to Christians coming out in droves even for such a character as Trump, had to be the hand of God.
Sorry but I never prepare for a loss. I became convinced that Trump was going to be our nominee and that he would then win the presidency in October 2015 after I saw him at a rally.
And many, though not all, Freepers agreed with me. We knew that the democrats nominated their worst nominee ever and the Republicans nominated a REAL change agent running for President of a country that was DEMANDING change.
I live in rural Oregon, after the 99 weeks of unemployment, they then went onto SSDI, most qualified with a pain in their back. The SSDI trust fund is out of money, they had to transfer more SS funds to the disability fund.
So these people, in my neck of the woods are mostly unemployed loggers, due to the Clinton policies (spotted owl). We live on big acreage, growing timber, if we hire anyone from Cragis list to just do basic yard work, tree trimming, road work, they have to be paid in cash, other wise they loose their SSDI and 80% of unemployed people I know are on it!!!
“God’s will.
“Mass prayer
Trump’s drive”
Yes. Yes. Yes.
Shrillary: In no particular order. -—
We didn’t want to elect the titular head of the Clinton Corrupt Crime Organization to be President—we want RICO charges instead.
She only visited 37 states==which means she ignored 26 % of the states in the USA.
She called voters a number of names, but DEPLORABLES stuck with us all...
She was filmed requiring assistance a number of times, which put doubt into voter’s minds about her overall health & possible longevity in the Oval Office. Her VP choice wasn’t a viable successor to her if she was unable to do the job. He looked & behaved like an extra in the back of the bar scenes in ‘CHEERS’.
She took off many days in a row—many times——’to prepare for a debate’, which left voters also wondering how she could handle a crisis of lingering time frame in the office of President.
She would have brought “Pervert In Chief Bill Clinton back into the White House-—we have seen enough of him & his antics.
Her behavior when in the White House in the 90’s with her nasty attitudes & rules for those who worked to support the White House & the Secret Service was not a secret to many voters. She is downright nasty.
She depended on the media to tell lies about Trump & to support her unconditionally.. They did-—but America is tired of it all..
The FAKE NEWS has been going on so long, we are just about immune to all their rhetoric.
She lied to the faces of the families of those who were killed in Benghazi. NOT ACCEPTABLE.
She lied to Congress.... ABOUT EVERYTHING — Her private server is just another extension of the attitude of the Clintons—they can do as they wish without consequences...
The revelations about the ‘work around the rules’ concerning the extremely highly paid ‘speeches’ both Bill & Shrillary gave to pad their bank accounts were considered smarmy by many, including myself.
Bill & his known sexual attacks are far worse than the language that was recorded by Billy Bush in an informal—OFF THE RECORD— setting with DJT.
Shrillary made it very clear that she would TAKE OUR GUNS AWAY, leaving us defenseless against the ‘refugees’ & the illegal invaders some of us live with every day in our residences & work places.
Shrillary made it very clear that she would NOT build a wall or do anything to deter the influx of the illegals, who are stealing millions of support dollars from working taxpaying CITIZENS.
Shrillary made it very clear that she would aggressively continue the policies of Obama—the fake, not eligible President—and we had enough of him.
Shrillary made it very clear that she supported Obamacare, which is strangling the country,.
Shrillary made it very clear that she would NOT demand voter ID & a better, cleaner voter roll system in all the counties in the USA. The ‘popular vote’ results prove that the voter rolls are seriously CONTAMINATED & need to be done away with & started over.
Shrillary wanted to eliminate the Electoral College & just have California & New York voting count. 48 states would have no say in the election of a President.....
For a hundred more reasons, she was NOT elected-—or electable.
NOW- I want her indicted in every possible case they can find against her & I don’t want her living high on the hog-—send her to Gitmo.
A modern day Cyrus to answer our prayers for our country?
Trump won the presidency especially given his character flaws and abrasive personality.”””
Are you possible saying that neither of the Clintons have any ‘character flaws’ ????????
Did you really want the Bill Clinton proven pervert back in the White House?
The only question for me was if the left could steal the election by manipulating the vote count.”””
The real problem is that people are registered to vote all around the country who are NOT eligible to vote in the first place. There are millions of people registered who are NOT eligible to vote under American laws.
Obama stood on rally platforms in the last 2 weeks campaigning for Shrillary & openly told illegals:
GO VOTE—NO ONE WILL STOP YOU....
I want him indicted for interfering with an election.
Me too!
Providence, a manifestation of God’s foresightful care for his creatures, is why Trump won.
>>Mostly it was a pissed off electorate and very hard work by the candidate and his staff
Those are super important factors that the media and the liberals are still in denial about. Also prayer.
And don’t forget intelligence. The “smartest woman in the world” was apparently unaware that the Presidency is decided by the Electoral vote, not the popular vote.
(Plus Trump and his staff made some very clever plays, such as campaigning in Minnesota the day before the election. The Democrats thought that was stupid because they had Minnesota in the bag. What they didn’t think about was that news broadcasts from Minnesota are seen and heard in Wisconsin - a major battleground. Since they didn’t think about that, they didn’t counter in Wisconsin - a major tactical error.)
>>Why would anyone vote for her unless you were a Lib Kool-Aid drinker?
I find this difficult to understand as well. I am still astounded that there was enough Kool-Aid in the universe for her to get as many votes as she did.
I think those points added to Trump and subtracted from Hitlery, but not necessarily enough to make a difference. I am still SHOCKED by the number of people who are unaware of the facts of either case. Or in some cases even of the existence of the issue. LIVs are (sadly) very real.
Stupid is as stupid does - F Gump
There is a sucker born every minute - PT Barnum
and History class in the Public Schools is no help either. We crank out dopes by design.
I thought it would take a miracle for Trump to win. I believe GOD intervened.
Thank you!
For many, it would seem so. Our Holy Father answered many prayers that day; and He continues to answer not just one, but many more. He moves in mysterious ways and until we listen and see, we fail to notice what miracles are around us.
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