# Donald Trump Wins Electoral College Election **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [December 19, 2016, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-wins-electoral-college-election/775191 "2016-12-19T23:18:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 42
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-wins-electoral-college-election/775191/42 "2016-12-20T13:24:59Z")
> [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](#): > > Quoted for future reference. > > You guys and gals have really lost your minds since the election. Liberal dopers learn from the best (bolding mine): > [@The official post-Election Day thread:11/7/12](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-post-election-day-thread-11-7-12/640177/8): > > You really are delusional if you think everything is just fine. **We’re headed straight for a fiscal cliff.** But, as I said, it doesn’t matter either way. If the electorate really is D+6 now then it’s going to be virtually impossible for any Republican to win a presidential election without major outside influence. Being “obstructionists” isn’t going to help them, which is what they’ll be labeled as if they refuse to sign onto any of the Democrat’s ideas. So they should just go along with whatever Democrats want. Either Democrats are right and “their way” will work or it won’t. > > Either way, I would think it’s an idea everyone on this board could agree to. > [@2016: Obama's America (no, not the stupid movie)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2016-obamas-america-no-not-the-stupid-movie/641436/2): > > Well, we’re **on the cusp of another recession** (the Eurozone is already there), we’re seeing pre-Obamacare layoffs/cutbacks, China is going to gain a lot more leverage over the US as their economy surpasses our own and **we’re going to hit the proverbial cliff sometime soon**. So it’ll be terrible. But as a country we get what we vote for. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-wins-electoral-college-election/775191)._