Larry Schweikart - FReeper "LS" - will be appearing in Southern California this Thursday, May 18

Multiple links in body of thread | May 14, 2017

[SamAdams76]

I knew Trump won when they called OH by a comfortable margin - I think about an hour earlier than FL was called. I was not nervous about FL at all because I knew the Panhandle would come through for him in the end. Also, I was following LS's postings in the days prior and based on the early numbers he was seeing, FL was a done deal. OH actually had me worried because I knew he could not win overall without a solid blowout victory there. That was the key to having a chance in PA, WI and MI. If Trump only won OH by a couple points, I don't think he would have won those other upper Midwest states.

Speaking of PA, I remember how many people here called it "fool's gold" and chastised Trump for spending resources there instead of focusing on other states like CO and NH. A lot of people thought it was literally impossible for Trump to carry PA, much less MI and WI.

I'm still a little heartbroken over NH - where I used to live - Trump should have won there and if he did, we'd have one extra senator as well (Ayotte).

[KC Burke]

Now he has been all settled in his old stomping grounds of Arizona. Don’t you let those leftists in California abuse him.

[dp0622]

#### NV and CO.

PA will be a YUGE focus for next time now. Along with MI and WI.

Having FL and OH in the bag would be YUGE

[Yaelle]

True, re Ohio. I was still worried about FL, though.

Heartbreaking is also the millions of votes here in CA for Trump. Incredible amounts. All into the toilet. It is a very frustrating place to live, come election time.

[SamAdams76]

I've lived most of my adult life in New England so I know the feeling. My votes go to waste as the Democrat almost always wins. But I get out there every election and vote just the same. Eventually the tide will turn.

PA, WI and MI flipping red in 2016 is an example of that!

Also, don't forget that the Deep South was written off by Republicans for decades after the Civil War. Now it's the complete opposite. So hang in there. California may yet go red again.

[dp0622]

lol!!!

She’s a petulant narcissistic child.

[Albion Wilde]

MAGA list ping!

My Big Trump list ping!

[stars & stripes forever]

We’ll be praying for your safety, LS.

[jonrick46]

Schweikart is a patriot, one of our special FReepers and a brilliant analyst. We are all good because of him.

[LS]

Thanks. It’s a long drive.

[xzins]

Give ‘em hell, Larry.

Praying for you.

Zechariah 8

“These are the things you shall do:
Speak each man the truth to his neighbor;
Give judgment in your gates for truth, justice, and peace;
17 Let none of you think evil in your heart against your neighbor.
And do not love a false oath.
For all these are things that I hate,’
Says the Lord.”

[Vaquero]

The fake news was so intensely trying to destroy the confidence of the Trump fans and keep them home on Election Day.....I stopped watching-reading fake news...including any election night coverage. I was positive of a Trump victory.

But we are under fire, constantly. This election does nothing unless we take the reins. The enemy we see in the dhimmicrat party is blatant. But the real danger is the scumbags in the Republican Party who need a high colonic. McCain, Linda Graham and their ilk need to leave or be destroyed politically.

[Lakeshark]

Being from Michigan, I had a certain confidence the week before. I was proud to have talked a lot of conservatives off the edge, getting them to see Trump as a good candidate; also persuading a few non voters in the past to get out and vote for him. I told people not to listen to the exit polls, and don't watch returns until 10 PM Eastern at the earliest, but that Trump was going to win, and I was certain.

I the based my confidence on a few things. First, all the various Clintons and their surrogates were suddenly campaigning in the Midwest a lot. The Bamster would never be campaigning if it weren't in the bag. Second, the Wikileaks revelations about how so many polls were skewing their samples to make propaganda for Hillary. Third, the repressed anger in America, particularly the Midwest was very real.

I have to admit, I didn't see Wisconsin happening, nor how close Minnesota would be.

[dp0622]

I’m here every day and I didn’t know about the wikileaks dump regarding skewing the polls.

How did i miss that.

It’s a wonder Jim lets me stay on the board :)

[Lakeshark]

It was on Hannity.

He was one of the few that reported on the Wikileaks stuff.

[quantim]

Honestly I’m surprised the margin here in MI wasn’t greater.

I saw less than a handful of signs for The Shrill in maybe 150 square miles out here in the far west side of the Detroit suburbs. To be sure the turnout was far greater for the dems than they displayed publicly, they were not happy.

And between the two college towns of Ann Arbor and Lansing put Bernie over Hillary in the primary, knew it was over then.

Michigan is unfairly labeled a blue state, purple often yes. Sadly the large urban areas can overwhelm the entire state in national elections but those populations have dwindled in recent years.

In spite of the ghetto areas of Detroit, Flint, Pontiac, Inkster, Romulus, Kalamazoo, Saginaw, Hamtramck, Jackson and many others - as well as large liberal enclaves such as Ann Arbor and Lansing, I’d say we are doing pretty good in MI:

Mi has a republican President of the United States.

MI has a conservative, republican backed State Supreme Court.

MI has a republican Governor.

MI has a republican Lieutenant Governor.

MI has a republican State Senate.

MI has a republican House of Representatives.

MI has a republican Attorney General.

MI has a republican Secretary of State.

MI has a republican congressional margin by a 2:1 ratio.

MI is a right-to-work state.

;-)

[dp0622]

Oh. Thanks

[Fiji Hill]

I’ll be there.

[Lakeshark]

I thought it would be a slightly greater margin as well; judging from PA and Ohio, I believe it was.

Voter fraud may have been considerable in the democrat controlled areas of Detroit, I think they found a lot of irregularities there early on in the recount.

For the first time since Reagan's second election, I'm proud of my State's vote........:-)

[painter]

LS,

Here is what I don't get. Hillary and the Dems thought they where going to win this thing in a landslide all the way up to 8:00pm election night!

Yet the day before with your connections to the Trump campaign told us we were going to win this.

I find it hard to believe they where believing their own crap polls!