Category Archives: Elections

Hillary Lost In The Rust Belt Because People Thought She Cared More About Bathrooms Than Jobs

An interesting take on the Democrat Party as a whole (Washington Post) Back in May, the longtime chairman of the Mahoning County Democratic Party sent a private memo to leaders in Hillary Clinton’s campaign warning that she was in grave danger of losing not just Ohio but also Pennsylvania and Michigan unless she quickly re-tooled […]

USA Today Allows Election 2016 Truthers To Demand An Election Audit

The outcome of the general election has brought all all the typical Liberal silliness. The immediate trending of @HesNotMyPresident even before most people were awake to know the results. Petitions to get the Electoral College to throw their votes to Hillary. Doxing members of the EC. Calls to abolish the EC. Demonstrations with typical liberal […]

Maureen Dowd: Obama Failed To Understand The Obama Revolution

Love her or hate her, the NY Times’ Maureen Dowd often provides interesting reads. She’s never seemed to be a big fan of Obama over the years, and has never shy’d away from taking him to task. Now she provides an interesting take on why Trump won, and puts a lot of blame on Obama […]

Democrats Riot, Vandalize Post Election

Remember this? Somehow the left's big slogan "when they go low, we go high" did NOT cover its reaction to losing the election pic.twitter.com/1INNEa57TB — Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) November 10, 2016 I’m not sure Democrats understand the concept of the “high road” (Fox News) Police in Portland, Ore. declared that a once peaceful protest was […]

NY Times: Donald Trump’s Victory Was Built on Stupid White Voters Or Something

When Republicans lose an election, the become introspective  (mostly) to determine what they did wrong and how they can do better. When Democrats lose, most introspection goes out the window in favor of Blamestorming A Victory Built on a Unique Coalition of White Voters …. And it extended through the suburbs of Cleveland and Minneapolis, […]

Washington Post Explains How Trump Won In A World Where America Has Issues

So, it’s official. Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States. I’m excited that Hillary was defeated. It’s enormously gratifying to see liberals, Democrats, and the media running the gamut of emotions from shock to despair. So many were predicting that Trump was done (note: I didn’t think he could pull it out, either). It […]

This Election Has “Unthinkably High Stakes” For ‘Climate Change’

For a change, Vox kinda gets something right, in an unhinged hyperventilating manner The unthinkably high stakes for climate change that we’ve completely ignored this election The next president will make decisions that will echo for centuries. This election season has been unusual in a variety of ways. In one way, however, it’s been entirely […]

Washington Post: Hillary Is Amply Qualified For President Or Something

I usually ignore the ramblings of left wing news outlets, meaning most of them, who will obviously back virtually all, if not all, of the Democrats running for office. Since the WP began endorsing for President back in 1976, they have never endorsed a Republican. And almost never endorsed any Republican. And, of course, they […]

Washington Post: Will Republicans Respect Democracy Or Something?

The Washington Post Editorial Board is rather upset about the notion that Republicans have promised to investigate the hell out of one of the shadiest, most dishonest, most crooked politicians in the history of this nation, should Hillary win on Tuesday Will Republicans respect democracy? THE BIG question after Tuesday’s election will not be whether […]

Bookmakers Going All In On Trump Winning

Personally, I’d prefer that we just start the whole thing over, but, whatever (The Hill) A major gambling website says nearly all wagers on the presidential election in the last 48 hours have been on Donald Trump to win. Irish bookmaker Paddy Power on Tuesday said 91 percent of bets on the election in the […]

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