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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/hea...omepage%2Fstory All of Trump's health care reform ideas being changed to GOP boilerplate or Paul Ryan plan/s.

Many in Clinton's campaign viewed these voters as Trump's base, people so committed to the Republican nominee that no amount of visits or messaging could sway them. Clinton made no visits to Wisconsin as the Democratic nominee, and only pushed a late charge in Michigan once internal polling showed the race tightening. Bill Clinton, advisers said, pushed the campaign early on to focus on these voters, many of whom helped elected him twice to the White House. The former president, a Clinton aide said, would regularly call Robby Mook to talk about strategy and offer advice. But aides said the Clinton campaign's top strategists largely ignored the former president, instead focusing on consolidating the base of voters that helped elect President Barack Obama to the White House. CNN.com always with the best political instincts in that family...it's hard to see how diminished he seemed in recent years, and now there will be more lifetime bitterness over the FBI letter and the Clintons feeling Obama could have reigned in Comey had he chosen to do so

Delegates to the Constitutional Convention that concocted the Electoral College rejected picking a president by popular vote for reasons that now seem historically remote, even quaint. Centuries before TV and social media, the bewigged delegates feared that each state’s voters (mostly white men who owned property) would know so little about the presidential candidates that they’d all back their state’s “favorite son” candidate and none of the contenders would get a majority. Plus, the delegates wanted to make sure small, less populous states didn’t feel left out. Now about 38 states feel left out every four years as the presidential candidates spend all their time and money wooing about 12 battleground states, including North Carolina. No other democracy uses this arcane system to pick its national leader. The United States shouldn’t either. Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/poli...l#storylink=cpy fwiw, the spread now is around 430,000 votes for Clinton

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/11/politics...x.html?adkey=bn more signs of the swamp being refilled with the same alligators

good use of the Walsh talking points memo when he attempted to walk that one back, though... what boogeymen will the nra use with Obama and Clinton gone now? Nancy Pelosi and Charles Schumer want to take your guns away? they can't exactly hang that issue on Bernie Sanders, either

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Nov 11, 2016 -> 10:21 AM) Also, a lot of people who wouldn't vote for Kerry because he was elitist and a Northeast Snob, just voted for a rich elitist New York snob. Difference being, one if incredibly smart and the other, well, lets just say the jury's still out on that one. must destroy all Americans who speak a second or third language, know anything about yachting and are effete/elitist/read the NY Times/are conversant about global issues. women grabbing that's what not blooded genuine and authentic good 'ol boys from Brooklyn or Queens do....not those pesky MANHATTANITES with their blueblood Ivy League educations

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-donald-t...-154449450.html planned lowering of corporate tax rates will bring yuuge investment/financial gains to those millions of middle and lower middle class Trump voters from Indiana OH PA WI MI. didn't southsider2k5 pull most of his money out?

QUOTE (brett05 @ Nov 11, 2016 -> 09:58 AM) We're broken because of people like you you wish hatred. anyone who's not a white male in america feels hatred from their leader https://www.yahoo.com/news/racial-tension-f...-061030608.html take this story about racial tensions in Mt. Greenwood as an example but Charles Barkley, Oprah and Obama say give Trump a chance...so that will magically fix everything said over the last 20 months of the campaign

well, it's certainly possible....but weren't a lot of those shovel ready infrastructure projects taken off the table because they were considered financially inefficient and would add to the deficit? still don't see how that will address the long-term undeniable endemic structural unemployment issues especially as the rumor is they want to lower or at least freeze the minimum wage...so how do you balance out the price rises caused by tariffs on imported goods with equivalent wage growth?

https://www.yahoo.com/tv/megyn-kelly-memoir...-041228528.html who tried to poison megyn kelly? and this is for Greg, who tipped him off to one of his "pointed" debate questions? lewandowski? the election was unfair...he had questions in advance throw him out! calexit! America has never had it worse since Obama was president....

he is very inclusive and loving with Eastern European models...well, no errr...make that any models and half the Miss Teen USA pageant contestants to boot

THE TRiUMPh OF DEMOCRACY v Nov 9, 2016, 8:04 PM From Michael Green Details Democracy and freewill have triumphed over the evils of ‘political correctness’, the tyranny of an elitist minority and their trend-sucking dilettantes in the media. This song is therefore dedicated to the brave voters in America - and their kindred conservative allies abroad - who defied/rejected the smears, lies and intimidation of REGRESSIVE liberalism to take back their country. Trump's presidency spells an end to the racist, sexist, xenophobic and homophobic schemes of the ruling libtard left. America now embarks on a path of common sense policies that END: the sacrifice of Judaeo-Christian values on the alter of multiCULTist immigration, the fight against islamo-fascism, the elitist agenda of globalization, the divisive narrative of political correctness, and US economic/military decline. To those who supported HiLIARy, I openly encourage them to emigrate to any dictatorial country in the world, where I am sure your short-sighted, social re-engineering idealism will be warmly welcomed and embraced. Just make sure the door doesn't hit you on the way out of Western Civilization, and don't go away mad - just go away！ God Bless the U.S.A. by Lee Greenwood www.youtube.com PLEASE be respectful of each other, even if you're not from this great Country!! Thanks, and enjoy the video!

probably came out of the idea about Muslims in NYC area celebrating after the Twin Towers came down...there was no consequence for making up that story or roughly 70% of his statements during the campaign

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/10/politics...wamp/index.html Trump doing the exact opposite of "draining the swamp" already....

https://www.yahoo.com/news/not-president-tr...-073531733.html http://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/10/us/post-...trnd/index.html See Greg? Be careful what you wish for...Trump's Amerikkka is falling apart before it even starts. This is just the beginning.

Tom Barrack from Colony Capital (in charge of raising money and producing the inauguration)..."great guy, outstanding guy, supported me from the very beginning"

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ku-klux-klan-hol...-230227525.html KKK rally scheduled for NC, Duke celebrates Trump victory for "our people" Yeah, the whole thing with blaming Obamacare is overblown...it's easy to make a villain/bad guy, especially if he's an "Other" but the fact of the matter is that casual restaurant dining is experience tons of upheaval and diminished profitability over the past five years. That has little to nothing to do with who is actually president. But it's a lot easier to hide under the cover of "It's Obama's fault!" rather than to admit they were taking tax credits and increasing profitability while squeezing the workers. Nothing new there. All those workers/families who lose health insurance and were tepid/lukewarm in their support of it because of the politicization of this topic since Hillarycare back in 1993 and 1994 might be wishing they had SOMETHING, rather than nothing at all. To expect competition/supply & demand to solve societal problems has never been the aim or goal of capitalism. It's to separate the "winners" and "losers" out (if your perspective on life is more oriented around material wealth and acquisition as the means to achieve happiness), those who own their own companies versus those who labor for others.

Harris was just elected to the Senate...the Dems might want to be careful about running another candidate with limited experience. The same argument was used against Marco Rubio in Florida. It's difficult to imagine Sanders, Michelle Obama or Joe Biden taking a leading role. Booker has a lot of positive momentum behind him, but he might need to start off as a VP candidate. Liz Warren, Kaine, Amy Klobuchar (MN), Kirsten Gillibrand (NY), Harris, Duckworth, Chris Murphy (CT) and Hickenlooper (CO) are all possibilities. Whatever they do, they have to find someone who can win the economic argument in the Rust Belt...to fight back in WV, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. So if you're thinking of a candidate, imagine how they would play in those five states, in terms of making a "blue collar" argument. Indiana would be another state to watch. I'm not sure Liz Warren has the ability to win those over, but certainly Sanders stood toe to toe with Clinton in those exact same states and beat her. Essentially, we're looking at the same areas that Obama lost to Clinton way back in 2008.

Why not try to have a more productive discussion here, lol? And typing in all CAPS will definitely help!!! Trump has announced his three "first 100 days" priorities as immigration, jobs and health care. These are the pertinent questions: 1) How does one go about cutting capital gains taxes, corporate taxes, individual rates (especially for the Top 10%, as its impact will be disproportionately felt), estate taxes and not blow up the Federal deficit even more? Bill Clinton was the last president with a Federal budget surplus, and that was largely due to the successfully economy/stock market and incoming revenues from 20% capital gains taxes (that were largely felt by the rich). Trump has promised 4% growth, whereas it has been in the 1.5-3.0% (range) over the last 2-3 years. Has this ever worked successfully in a traditional 1st world economy that incoming revenues were decreased, significant growth/expansion occurred AND the government didn't need to create stimulus/utilize quantitative easing/initiate jobs training and shovel ready projects? 2) Let's assume for the sake of argument that much of the "cost savings" will come from taking back or tearing down Obamacare completely. Which private insurance companies are going to take on those with pre-existing conditions and add them to their risk pools when many Americans are likely to change or dump insurance altogether? 3) One of the other "likeliest" solutions to the economic malaise is bringing in new talent from overseas, especially in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) areas, which are obvious current weaknesses in the American public high school and middle school systems. If you make it harder for talented/qualified immigrants to enter the US and fill tech jobs...what are you going to do to offset that? What types of education/training reform would be necessary? Is it realistic for those workers between ages 40/45 and 65/70 to retrain/make career changes so late in life? Let's look at PA, MI, WI and OH in particular. 4) If you slap a 45% tariff on all incoming Chinese goods or a 35% tariff on goods imported from Mexico, how exactly is that going to do anything but raise prices for consumer goods (lowering disposable or real income) and how will that result in those lost blue-collar/manufacturing/factory jobs coming back to the US? Is Donald Trump going to FORCE all American companies to bring back their production/manufacturing facilities back to the US? And their offshore corporate profits? And the Republican Congress will agree with this philosophically? Even if that was possible, unless workers were willing to accept lower wages (and most of the labor unions are dying already), the costs of doing business in America are already 2X-3X times higher...how is this anti-globalism/protectionism thing actually going to work? I just read where the average wage in Bangladesh is something like 28 cents per hour, so how can you possibly compete with those labor rates when you could get two or three day's worth of work in SE Asia for the cost of one util/labor unit in the United States? Realistically, how long would it take for a "jobs/training/education" program to even produce demonstrable/quantifiable results? This isn't House of Cards with America Works...after all. I hope the answer doesn't come back to building a wall between the United States and Mexico, or making Lou Dobbs the new head of the Department of Homeland Security.

The biggest problem is that only 10-15% of the Democratic Party was extremely excited and motivated by her candidacy...she just never had that "it" factor like her husband, GW Bush or Obama that gave people hope that she was capable of changing much about their futures.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Nov 10, 2016 -> 07:51 AM) I am still in such disbelief that with everything that happened the last two years, it's the Democratic Party that has no voice. This is a nightmare. They assumed too early that she was the best candidate...and "owed" the opportunity after the disappointment and close call of 2008. It's the same way the GOP ended up with Dole, McCain and Romney. All that stuff coming out about Bernie getting the shaft had to hurt the 18-29 year old vote in those key Rust Belt states that experienced depressed turnout. And African-Americans were still wary about the Clintons after the 2008 South Carolina primary. Biden, Warren and perhaps Sanders all could have taken Trump out.

Well, if Clinton won...it would have prevented the Democrats from winning again in 2020 or running Warren etc. until eight years from now, so there's that. Of course, there's no guarantee the GOP won't have some tricks up their sleeves as well. With control of Congress, there's also oing to be zero excuse for not governing going into the 2018 midterms, and Clinton still managed to win the popular vote. Not only that, but that's the end of centrist/moderate Democratic politics in the Clinton mode...Democratic Leadership Council, etc. it's officially been put out to pasture, and the Bernie coalition will be at the center of the new group, holding the Debbie Wasserman Schulz's/establishment feet to the fire.

Just wait until Trump opens up another investigation into the Clintons after inauguration or tries to bring criminal charges. He goes that route, he's going to re-energize a lot of young people who sat out this election.

It's not 1968 with MLK and JFK assassinated and the Chicago Democratic convention in complete chaos, it's not 9-11 or Pearl Harbor, but the last time I remember this feeling was the 1994 Newt Gingrich/Contract With America repudiation of the Clintons. But that was still less surprising than this particular result.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Nov 9, 2016 -> 01:20 PM) Hillary since she's getting locked up! Cruz, Kasich and Ryan. Romney and McCain. The Bush Family. Anyone in the FBI who wasn't pushing hard for a Clinton indictment. Alicia Machado Hollywood/Penn/Clooney/Bono NATO Aleppo Guantanamo Bay detainees