Rage Against the Machine
“The places that feel most left behind in a changing America propelled Donald Trump to a stunning victory over Hillary Clinton Tuesday night.” Ron Brownstein on how Trump won.
+ Vox: Republicans now control the presidency, the Senate, and the House.
+ This is the fact the shocked me the most and turned my own predictions into a complete joke. “Exit polls showed that Trump fared better with Latinos than Romney did in 2012.” Dios Mio.
+ Red and Blue? This was all about White. ( It wasn’t just non-college educated whites. Not by a longshot.)
+ One thing the exit polls make clear (even if it’s confusing): “Americans elected a candidate they don’t believe is qualified!”
+ Money is everything in politics? Maybe not: At under $5 each, Trump’s votes came cheap.
+ It looks like Clinton will win the popular vote. It’s so ironic. The celebrity lost the popularity contest, but won the electoral one.
+ Blame it on Low T. One of the keys: Turnout sucked.
+ Jim Rutenberg on A Dewey Defeats Truman Lesson for the Digital Age: “The misfire on Tuesday night was about a lot more than a failure in polling. It was a failure to capture the boiling anger of a large portion of the American electorate that feels left behind by a selective recovery, betrayed by trade deals that they see as threats to their jobs and disrespected by establishment Washington, Wall Street and the mainstream media.”
+ The better traditional ground game lost. The moral of the story: Twitter is the new ground game.