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I, for one, feared this would happen. Even when Comey providing a layup hadn’t happened yet.
We’re an angry and ignorant country, it seems. It’s impossible to predict what angry and ignorant people will do.
I’m not going to say this is the only reason, but keep in mind the Voter Rights Act was recently gutted. We really don’t have enough data to know how many people were disenfranchised, it very well could not have ended up making a difference in this election, but a number of minorities were definitely disenfranchised and it explains their depressed turnout to some degree.
And this is how Trump will get his second term. Do you think condescending to “the deplorables” is how you win them over to your side?
Yeah, that’s true - over 50% either voted for Trump or the libertarian, Gary Johnson (who raked in 3% of the popular vote).
Liberals who live in a liberal bubble surrounded by other liberals, and consuming only liberal media, don’t realize what this country is about.
I’d love to hear how you convince people to actually think minorities are human beings and that people don’t deserve to die because they can’t afford to pay medical bills if they don’t already think so.
I’m not American. And there are no sides, this is what your country is, and it’s pathetic.
Why is it that the immediate response seems to be to bitch about the people that voted for Trump? Surely the problem is that not enough people bothered voting for Clinton. Or are all the many tens of millions that didn’t vote just additional Trump voters?
If between 1 and 3 of every 100 Clinton supporters in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania or Florida had got someone else to vote Clinton she would have reversed those 59 electoral votes. Don’t you think there may be a few people in those states thinking, “Maybe I should have voted on Tuesday.”
I wonder because it’s a problem we don’t have in Australia with almost automatic registration and compulsory voting.
Then I guess Canadians, like Americans, are woefully ignorant of their own immigration system. There won’t be a “wave” of Americans entering Canada, because Canada isn’t really interested in making it easy for Americans to move in. (The average American seems to think immigration works like it did during the Ellis Island era. Just show up, prove you don’t have a contagious disease, and go grab your opportunity. That’s why so much talk about illegal immigrants centers on “waiting in line.”)
I’m still hoping to get an academic or research position in Canada or possibly the UK in a couple years after I get my PhD, but I’ve also been hoping for that for a couple years now because there are some nice places doing things I’m interested in. It’s not just a Trump thing, but that makes me want it even more.
No. From a tactical electioneering perspective it doesn’t work. But from a strategic perspective in trying to improve society, acknowledging facts is crucially important, and among those is the rather key fact that major election decisions are being made by low-information prejudiced ignoramuses. If – as is very likely – this decision comes back to bite them in the ass big time, leading to consequences that the morons never anticipated and never wanted, it won’t be the first time.
Of course not. But Omarosa as the next supreme court Justice? Likely.
If the days immediately following Brexit are anything to go by, non-whites are going to want to lie low for a bit. Hang in there guys.
They were around - it does look like Clinton will probably win the popular vote once the west is tallied. Sadly it is irrelevant, as winning California by 2 million votes does not cancel out losing multiple key states by tens of thousands each.
It’s very unlikely that any swing will be big enough to change party control in the near future.
The Senate seats up for election in 2018 are heavily Democratic ones.
In the House, the Republicans likely have a lock on the majority at least until 2022 and until and unless Democrats can take control of enough state legislatures to undo the Redmap gerrymandering.
Quick! Which way to the egress?
This.
Her decades-long criminal enterprise has finally caught up with her.
This election has exhausted me, as I’m sure it has everyone here, so I’m almost out of political posts.
I will say that Trump’s victory speech last night was gracious and struck the right tone, and I worried that he would be a gloater. I also appreciate the way Conway praised Clinton for her phone call. And honestly, I really wish Clinton would have come out to give a concession speech herself. I suspect that she was just overcome with grief and wasn’t sure she could compose herself in public, which is understandable. All of the insiders, all of the data pointed to victory. Not a blowout but a convincing win. And I guess she, like the rest of us, just watched in utter disbelief.
Whether we like the results or not, I think we have to at least wait and see what happens if nothing else. The markets are going to be shocked but they’ll probably get over it in a day or two, if not by day’s end. Mark Cuban was right: we’ll have to at least give this a chance. But it’s hard to actually bring myself to accept that. There’s just so much uncertainty right now.
The “average American” may think that – and it’s wrong – but the average Canadian such as myself at least has some idea of how our own immigration system works.
It’s true that it’s essentially impossible to immigrate to the US unless you are either (a) the subject of an intra-company transfer from an eligible country, or (b) a job applicant endorsed by the hiring company AND meeting necessary qualifications and eligibility criteria, or (c) an exceptionally fortunate refugee claimant. Canada has basically the same criteria but applicants for immigration to Canada can also qualify based on economic criteria – skills, education, and ability to contribute. That’s a significant difference.
Darkness.
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