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Why the Ones Who Got EVERYTHING Wrong in 2016 Probably Won’t Like 2018 Any Better
Townhall.com ^ | November 4, 2018 | Kevin McCullough

Posted on 11/04/2018 6:10:07 AM PST by Kaslin

Three days before the election in 2016 every major pollster in the nation predicted Hillary Clinton would be the next President of the United States.

Three days before the election in 2016 President Trump was at that time as risky a bet for conservatives & Republicans as he was for working class Democrats. They had all been let down by an establishment system that claimed to put them first but had seldom delivered in the previous number of years.

Three days before the election in 2016 nearly every major media pundit believed the never-Trump split in the Republican Party would prevent the nominated candidate from taking office. This would insure that the established progressive powers could continue to guide the direction of the courts towards America last, non-Constitutional, emotionally fickle rulings that would deliver through judicial activism what they had never been able to deliver through representative government.

Three days before the election in 2016 then President Obama believed the corruption buried deep in the infrastructure of the Department of Justice, the FBI, the State Department, the IRS, the White House Counsel’s office, and the remainder of his executive branch had enough insiders planted within to push forward his legacy of progressive governance. This cabal would also simultaneously punish those who didn’t play along.

Three days before the election North Korea, Iran, Russia, & China firmly believed they had another pushover lining up for the job in Secretary Clinton. Their ability to scam American interests on the foreign policy front would continue unabated.

They were all so wrong.

The landslide that had Hillary Clinton on the losing end ruined all of their plans. In a runaway crushing of 30 to 20 (of 50 states) the people demonstrated a different mind than that of the corrupt established elite club dedicated to fundamentally transforming America into one of the weakest and most inept versions of herself in history.

Now three days before the elections of 2018 pollsters are again predicting that Democrats will win crushing victories and return the control of Congress to the Democrats.

Now three days before the elections of 2018 the media believes it is finally the beginning of the end for President Trump.

Now three days before the elections of 2018 never-Trumpers have largely returned to the GOP base and some of their most vocal members from 2016 have pledged absolute support for Trump in 2020.

Now three days before the elections of 2018 two original language strict constructionists sit on the Supreme Court. Far beyond that 84 additional lifetime appointed judges sit on circuit and district courts. Three more conservatives have even been added to the whacky 9th Circuit (the most overturned court in the nation.)

Now three days before the elections of 2018 President Trump has fixed the economy, overseen an explosion of jobs and wages that defy historical norms. North Korea, Russia, China & Iran are on the outs. ISIS has lost 99.7% of its territory. Trade deals with nearly every major trading partner have been made more favorable to the American worker.

And that cabal wholly dedicated to resisting Trump and preserving Obama’s legacy within the executive branch has been exposed for the lying hypocritical and criminal creeps they are.

There is much more to do. Even more importantly there is much that must be prevented from allowing everyone who opposes this progress to do.

Never has a President campaigned harder — literally picking up his parties’ Congressional members, putting them on his back and doing all he can to get them across the finish line.

His tireless work ethic on the campaign trail in 2016 proved how crooked the system was. His rallies were enormous. The polls were 1000% wrong. And election night turned into a narrative nightmare for the established media, establishment political class, and the progressive political class so intent on preventing American greatness from re-emerging.

Three days before the election of 2016 I drew a map that got within one state a prediction of nearly the exact outcome of why President Trump would win. I felt odd at the time because my friends and colleagues who had been Trump supporters longer than I had been didn’t believe he would win.

Three days before the election of 2018 my intuition tells me election night will be a bit of surprise. The GOP should expands seats in the Senate. The GOP may even possibly hold the House in what would be a historical accomplishment not seen in 32 years.

I’ve even recommended grief counselors be brought in for the pundits in MSNBC and that other network—what’s its name—the one that trails the Cartoon Network and infomercials most nights... oh that’s right... CNN.

The people won’t abide being carved up, compartmentalized, and counted out before they even show up.

Three days from now they may just show those pundits and media anew—just how little they actually know.

Just three more days!


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: 2018election; 2020election; congress; demonrats; election2018; election2020; midterms2018; polling; republican; senate
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To: KarlInOhio

Exactly. I don’t put much stock in propaganda articles — written by either side.


21 posted on 11/04/2018 7:18:50 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them ... like Russians willm)
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To: fireman15

Join the American majority.

Only answer calls from people who are on your contact list. A call that matters from an unknown number will leave you a voice message detailing why they called. Convince your friends and relatives to do the same.

Together we can make this a supermajority.


22 posted on 11/04/2018 7:20:47 AM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: Liz

So that explains the goofy, OMG! face on the goon-faced Halfrican when he met the impressive president-elect.

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My favorite picture is the one of all the Obama staffers the day after the election, out on the portico while Obama congratulated Trump on his election win. The staffers, including ValJar, looked like their best friends, family and pets had all died at the same time. I’m sure many of them had been in and out of the bathroom all day with the runs at the thought of “oh sh!t ... all that bad stuff we’ve been doing now needs to be covered up!”

Pictures at link ... the one that sticks in my mind the most is the 6th one down entitled “Grim: Valerie Jarrett (foreground) who is Obama’s senior adviser, watched from the side as the president spoke about the Clinton defeat”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3921050/We-rooting-Donald-Obama-congratulates-Trump-victory-says-country-unite-new-president.html?ITO=1490


23 posted on 11/04/2018 7:33:00 AM PST by Qiviut (McCain & Obama's Legacy in two words: DONALD TRUMP!)
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To: Qiviut
Valerie Jarrett is Obama’s Senior Adviser....

In Chicago parlance "Senior Adviser" means Wire-Transfer Artist.

24 posted on 11/04/2018 7:41:23 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Kaslin

This time around, the DOJ and patriots are watching for and documenting voter fraud and many are being rounded up and prosecuted.


25 posted on 11/04/2018 7:59:10 AM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: KarlInOhio
2016 was neither a landslide nor a runaway crushing. It was a last minute squeaker that could have very easily gone the other way.

Yep. Less than 80,000 votes in three states would have given Hillary the presidency.

26 posted on 11/04/2018 7:59:41 AM PST by CatOwner
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To: KarlInOhio

He ( the author ) meant an electoral landslide and given the media and pollster predictions- it clearly was a landslide for the president


27 posted on 11/04/2018 8:07:29 AM PST by atc23 (Votante Blanco)
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To: CatOwner
Yep. Less than 80,000 votes in three states would have given Hillary the presidency

Where are you getting this crap from? It was 304-227 - that is a blowout

28 posted on 11/04/2018 8:13:14 AM PST by atc23 (Votante Blanco)
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To: atc23
Margins of victory in:

PA (20 EVs): 44K
WI (10 EVs): 23K
MI (16 EVs): 11K

Flip those states on less than an 80K vote difference, and Hillary is POTUS.

29 posted on 11/04/2018 8:19:21 AM PST by CatOwner
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To: atc23
Beating the line is not a landslide, even if the odds makers are lying. If LSU had beaten Alabama by one point last night I wouldn't call it a blowout. Big surprise and a great victory? Yes, but not a blowout.

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_elections_by_Electoral_College_margin 2016 was 46th of 58 presidential elections in electoral vote margin.

30 posted on 11/04/2018 8:26:31 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Leave the job, leave the clearance. It should be the same rule for the Swamp as for everyone else.)
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To: Kaslin

My guess on ‘why Hillary the Witch lost’ was that Ed Randell underestimated the number of ballots needed to stuff the boxes for a Hillary win.

The little cheats won’t make that mistake again...

We need to watch every ‘close’ race - ‘cause that’s where the fraud will happen.


31 posted on 11/04/2018 8:40:26 AM PST by GOPJ (Democrats want dead children & VIOLENCE at the border... for their "Kent State" photo op...)
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To: Alberta's Child

Well, the Dems regained control of the Senate in 1986 after losing it in 1980. I suspect the author was confused.


32 posted on 11/04/2018 8:43:11 AM PST by railroader
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To: CatOwner

Exactly so!

No pollster, even those that WANT to be accurate instead of spin, has error margins that cannot predict such small shifts. But notice that they NEVER admit that.

Polling across House races using a standard methodology isn’t done, so aggregators are forced to merely project, same as any non-pro.

Safest to rely on historical patterns and incumbency. Average mid-term election loss in the House is 23 seats. There are 58 open seats. It is those two facts that cause the projection of Dems retaking the House. Other reasons having anything to do with Trump cited by pros are just smokescreen. Dems need to flip around 24 seats, very doable by historic standards, Trump having nothing to do with it.

But a show of support for Trump of almost any size might be enough to keep the Dems below the historic average seat gains and keep the House in GOP control.


33 posted on 11/04/2018 9:06:46 AM PST by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: CatOwner; All
Yes, I expect Tuesday will be akin to 2016 with very close House election and may pivot on close races in a handful of districts. My guess (worthless) is GOP picks up seats in the Senate and Dems win the House by five seats or thereabouts. This would confirm how divided the nation is as we move towards 2020. The next two years will be like the last only worse. The Dems will turn the House into Animal Hose with all the devils present and the media will be into non stop screaming all the time.the good news is DJT keeps growing in self assurance and competence as Potus and will really be a commanding figure in 2020. The people lining up for the Dem nomination all look like dwarfs beside him. Also the nation is getting used to a President who is not like the procession of gravitas speakers we have had to endure and is a real person in public and private circumstances. DJT is emerging as a personality akin to Andrew Jackson who is a non-insider but who is more than capable of dealing with the political class.
34 posted on 11/04/2018 9:26:40 AM PST by robowombat (Orthodox)
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To: Kaslin
All these articles about the polls being wrong make me more nervous than I already am. In 2016 they were terribly wrong (to our benefit!) but in 2012, we all thought they were wrong (they HAD to be, right?) but they weren't. BHO won a second term much to our great disappointment.

I just hope this year is like 2016!

35 posted on 11/04/2018 12:47:30 PM PST by luv2ski
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To: CatOwner
Fortunately electoral college doesn’t vote this year. Flipping them makes no sense.
36 posted on 11/04/2018 5:40:09 PM PST by hinckley buzzard (Power is more often surrendered than seized.)
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