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According to conventional wisdom, Trump has no chance in Pennsylvania, let alone Michigan or Wisconsin. And he was very likely to lose Florida and North Carilina.

Meanwhile, she was putting Georgia, Utah, and Texas in play.

Let's be clear, the media took these stories directly from the Clinton camp.

Polls from groups like PPP, SurveyMonkey, and some of the more reputable ones, worked in concert with the media, the Clinton Campaign, and the Democratic Party to portray the race as unwinnable, and to suppress the vote.

Voters recognized this, and saw the evidence that Bernie had been screwed in the Primaries, that Hillary had been given questions ahead of Town Halls and debates by CNN, and got fed up.

Trump riled them up by talking about a rigged election, and folks came out to reject Hillary Clinton and her dishonest politics.

 

She probably already had her transition team organized. Perhaps that was part of the problem.

Once republicans overplay their hand and they will, perhaps it swings back in 2018 but I'd say much more likely to be 2020. Too many Dem senators in red states in 2018.

The brain-drain, in an odd way, I think helps Republicans. If you're a smart, ambitious college kid in Nebraska or Iowa and you have options to work in tech or engineering in Seattle, SoCal, Chicago, Minneapolis, NY, Boston when you're 22, wouldn't you go as well?

Even in our industry, our sharp 22 year olds are gone by the time they're 25, almost always to really big cities that usually vote Democratic.

Then if they do return to Nebraska or Iowa, they're 33, married, probably have quite a bit of money and care more about property taxes and safe schools than whether their loft has 17 coffee houses within two blocks.

 

Wait, so was it economic anxiety, a repudiation of liberal social values, or a backlash to biased media?

 

And whether their safety pin is free-range and/or non-GMO.

 

Don't get me started...

 

To say nothing of the cumulative effect of 30 years of biased media, courtesy of the right-wing screech machine corporate MSM.

 

They had given up on Iowa long ago.

All that spending was for the one potential EV out of Omaha.

 

The Trump Administration Already Has a Terrible Relationship With the Press

 

Oh no!

 

Tito, get me a tissue!

 

I thought you had the polling data at the ready.

 

100% of respondents agree that the surprise result confirms something they already believed