Source: New Yorker Archives
So what's the moral of the story we take away from the bruising 2016 Presidential Election?
If you degrade women (including referring to them as pigs, slobs and dogs), mock reporters with a disability, compare Mexican immigrants to rapists, call for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the country, swindle consumers out of money in a fraudulent scheme (Trump University), refuse to release taxes for public scrutiny, and publicly brag you didn't pay federal income tax for years-there will always be a place for you in Washington.
Sadly, the bullies always win.
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I imagine organizations like the Cook Political Report and FiveThirtyEight will be unraveling (in the coming days and weeks) how the polls went awry in 2016.
I joked on election night that when the dust settles, pollsters will be as credible as the local TV meteorologist predicting the weather.
Thomas Mann from Brookings Institution told me yesterday that there were a number of well-educated Republicans who took a dim view of Trump, but when push came to shove, they voted for him anyway.
A Beltway reporter told me Hillary was the wrong candidate at the wrong time.
Many comments I'm reading on the New York Times and Washington Post websites suggest young progressives (Bernie supporters) were angered with how the Democratic Party tilted the primaries in Clinton's favor. I wonder if the young progressives were so disillusioned with the rigged system-they simply stayed home on Election Day.
Brian Williams from MSNBC voiced an interesting observation: he said pollsters forgot to count the lawn signs across America. He had a point there.
At least here in Parma, a suburb in Northeastern Ohio, I was amazed how many Trump/Pence signs I saw on front lawns over the last few months.
Did you know? Democrats have won the popular vote in seven out of the last eight presidential elections.
-Bill Lucey
November 10, 2016
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