# Who do you blame/credit for Trump's victory?   (short/succinct poll)

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [July 7, 2018, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-blame-credit-for-trumps-victory-short-succinct-poll/817487 "2018-07-07T20:41:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-blame-credit-for-trumps-victory-short-succinct-poll/817487/81 "2018-07-09T21:51:09Z")

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**Silver:**

> [@elucidator](#):
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> …Do you believe that your agenda is supported by a majority of the American people?..

There, simplified, leaving out quarterbacks and voter ID for now…

If you do believe that, one what basis, other than people actually voting? And if not, how do you justify such an extreme reordering?

My view is that a divided electorate demands grown-ups who will engage the agonizing process of compromise and accommodation. A “winner take all” approach? Dare I hope that it is not necessary to point out the problems with that?

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**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-blame-credit-for-trumps-victory-short-succinct-poll/817487/82 "2018-07-09T22:22:06Z")

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It is an awful lot of the choices list above.

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**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-blame-credit-for-trumps-victory-short-succinct-poll/817487/83 "2018-07-10T02:58:35Z")

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“Most of the above”

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**Author:** ![Leonard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a6a055/32.png) [@Leonard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leonard)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-blame-credit-for-trumps-victory-short-succinct-poll/817487/84 "2018-07-10T04:29:04Z")

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> [@Sage\_Rat](#):
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> With Gary Johnson, the media decided he was a crank and so they didn’t report anything about him. Usually, that’s how the media treats joke candidates.
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> In the case of Trump, they decided not to do so and ended up granting him the world’s largest campaign donation via free exposure in, probably, the history of American elections. The consistently failed to cover his policy platform or run through why it was moronic, and instead just focused on how non-PC he was.

I was surprised that there was no ratings hungry media vote. I probably would have picked that one.

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