“We’re going to throw everything at him that he threw at us”, said one longtime Democratic operative active in the effort.
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After 300 words, we know why Trump beat Clinton, so what’s the point of having a panel of “experts” or journalists and professors explain what happened November 8? The Democratic nominee eventually won the state by an eight-point margin. Our thin-skinned baby president-elect hates the idea that millions more people voted for his opponent than for him, so he’ll accept whatever made-up facts he needs to make it not so.
Journal: What happened? How could so many pundits and pollsters be so wrong?
If liberals responded to the election of Donald Trump by seeking more authority for “blue” states to go their own ways, many conservatives would say yes to that deal. Numerous biggest states lean very Democratic and every four years Democrats win those states by very large margins.
“In 2012, President Obama carried the typical swing states or battleground states of Iowa, Ohio and Florida”, Lee said, noting that those states favored Trump in 2016.
Journal: What were some underlying factors contributing to Clinton’s loss that the polls didn’t pick up on? A majority of USA citizens want to do just that, but then a majority of USA citizens also favor universal single-payer health care, a $15 minimum wage and stricter controls on election contributions and we haven’t been able to get our “representatives” to approve any of these. And that’s despite the fact that Trump won far more states than Clinton – 30 for Trump to 20 (plus the District of Columbia) for Clinton.
For the second time in recent experience, and the fifth time in American history, a presidential candidate has been elected despite having failed to win a plurality of the nationwide vote. “If my favorite candidate wins the popular vote and loses the electoral college, we should abolish the electoral college”.
In Washington state alone, Guerra is the third electoral college member to become a “faithless elector”. For example, insufficient time and money was spent in MI and Wisconsin. Did this affect the polling, in your estimation? That’s as absurd as his pre-election claims that the voting system was “rigged”. Fitrakis – much like Stone months earlier – alluded to the 2004 election and the surprise results that left Democrats asking questions about the validity of the vote.
Possible explanations for the downturn? They’re our last best hope.
The electoral college also tends to bolster the two major parties, which, for all the criticisms, have helped produce long-term political stability that many nations can only envy.
If you review the videos of Trump rallies in late October you find the real source of his victory. It gets the same number of electoral votes whether it makes it easy or hard for citizens to participate. The threats of open borders and free trade policies created fear in the minds of these voters. We in this country constantly misuse the term democracy, especially when referring to presidential elections, and our “democratic” process in general. This populist insurgency is also occurring in other European countries, such as France. In the 1970s, voters there reacted against Republicans’ support of the Vietnam War. That allegedly charitable organization has been a source of power for the Clinton family, which raked in millions of dollars for the foundation exclusively because of Hillary Clinton’s position as secretary of state.
Romper reached out to President-elect Trump for comment and did not immediately hear back. Of course, there was his arbitrary promise to “Make America Great Again”, which meant different things every day; it could mean building a wall between the United States and Mexico. For instance, if you add 12 percent (half the independents) to the Republican’s 52 percent, you get 64 percent – Trump’s winning edge here.
Well, some of these electors, who probably ran for the position thinking that it was accompanied by anonymity and would be devoid of scrutiny, are trying to stop Trump.
Trump said during his campaign that he planned to deport a total of 11 million unregistered immigrants.
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Republicans control both chambers of Congress; however, their majority in the House of Representatives, where they control 241 of the 435 seats, is much more commanding than in the Senate, where they only control 52. For example, Jeb Bush spent tens of millions of dollars on political ads during the Republican primary and got nowhere fast.
