Self-hating liberal elitist appalled how little rural America travels to experience other cultures . . . on America's coasts

The guy's a boob . . . from Ohio:

"When you are in the white bubble, you just don’t know it."

The guy's so ignorant he doesn't even know that Americans are the second most traveled people IN THE WORLD, right behind #1 Finland. And they actually do most of their traveling within the country, contrary to the thesis.

Besides, if Americans want to visit a third world hellhole, they already know they don't have to travel abroad. They can just head over to Chicago's Chatham neighborhood, or West Englewood.

Just bring a gun.

Trump laid out 28 policy prescriptions in his Gettysburg address which repudiate Obama, but Obama still says Trump has few hard and fast proposals

Obama always has had trouble with math. And denial.

Here:

"I think he is coming to this office with fewer set hard and fast policy prescriptions than a lot of other presidents might be arriving with. Do I have concerns? Absolutely, of course I've got concerns. He and I differ on a whole bunch of issues," Obama added.

From Gettysburg:

1. Propose a Constitutional Amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress.
2. Institute a hiring freeze on all federal employees to reduce federal workforce through attrition (exempting military, public safety, and public health).
3. Require for every new federal regulation, two existing regulations must be eliminated.
4. Institute a five year-ban on White House and Congressional officials becoming lobbyists after they leave government service.
5. Create a lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government.
6. Institute a complete ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections.
7. Announce intention to renegotiate NAFTA or withdraw from the deal under Article 2205.
8. Announce withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
9. Direct Secretary of the Treasury to label China a currency manipulator.
10. Direct the Secretary of Commerce and U.S. Trade Representative to identify all foreign trading abuses that unfairly impact American workers and direct them to use every tool under American and international law to end those abuses immediately.
11. Lift the restrictions on the production of $50 trillion dollars’ worth of job-producing American energy reserves, including shale, oil, natural gas and clean coal.
12. Lift the Obama-Clinton roadblocks and allow vital energy infrastructure projects, like the Keystone Pipeline, to move forward.
13. Cancel billions in payments to U.N. climate change programs and use the money to fix America’s water and environmental infrastructure.
14. Cancel every unconstitutional executive action, memorandum and order issued by President Obama.
15. Begin the process of selecting a replacement for Justice Scalia from one of the 20 judges on my list, who will uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States.
16. Cancel all federal funding to Sanctuary Cities.
17. Begin removing the more than 2 million criminal illegal immigrants from the country and cancel visas to foreign countries that won’t take them back.
18. Suspend immigration from terror-prone regions where vetting cannot safely occur. All vetting of people coming into our country will be considered extreme vetting.
19. Work with Congress on a Middle Class Tax Relief And Simplification Act. An economic plan designed to grow the economy 4% per year and create at least 25 million new jobs through massive tax reduction and simplification, in combination with trade reform, regulatory relief, and lifting the restrictions on American energy. The largest tax reductions are for the middle class. A middle-class family with 2 children will get a 35% tax cut. The current number of brackets will be reduced from 7 to 3, and tax forms will likewise be greatly simplified. The business rate will be lowered from 35 to 15 percent, and the trillions of dollars of American corporate money overseas can now be brought back at a 10 percent rate.
20. Work with Congress on a End The Offshoring Act. Establishes tariffs to discourage companies from laying off their workers in order to relocate in other countries and ship their products back to the U.S. tax-free.
21. Work with Congress on a American Energy & Infrastructure Act. Leverages public-private partnerships, and private investments through tax incentives, to spur $1 trillion in infrastructure investment over 10 years. It is revenue neutral.
22. Work with Congress on a School Choice And Education Opportunity Act. Redirects education dollars to gives parents the right to send their kid to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of their choice. Ends common core, brings education supervision to local communities. It expands vocational and technical education, and make 2 and 4-year college more affordable.
23. Work with Congress on a Repeal and Replace Obamacare Act. Fully repeals Obamacare and replaces it with Health Savings Accounts, the ability to purchase health insurance across state lines, and lets states manage Medicaid funds. Reforms will also include cutting the red tape at the FDA: there are over 4,000 drugs awaiting approval, and we especially want to speed the approval of life-saving medications.
24. Work with Congress on a Affordable Childcare and Eldercare Act. Allows Americans to deduct childcare and elder care from their taxes, incentivizes employers to provide on-site childcare services, and creates tax-free Dependent Care Savings Accounts for both young and elderly dependents, with matching contributions for low-income families.
25. Work with Congress on an End Illegal Immigration Act. Fully-funds the construction of a wall on our southern border with the full understanding that the country Mexico will be reimbursing the United States for the full cost of such wall; establishes a 2-year mandatory minimum federal prison sentence for illegally re-entering the U.S. after a previous deportation, and a 5-year mandatory minimum for illegally re-entering for those with felony convictions, multiple misdemeanor convictions or two or more prior deportations; also reforms visa rules to enhance penalties for overstaying and to ensure open jobs are offered to American workers first.
26. Work with Congress on a Restoring Community Safety Act.Reduces surging crime, drugs and violence by creating a Task Force On Violent Crime and increasing funding for programs that train and assist local police; increases resources for federal law enforcement agencies and federal prosecutors to dismantle criminal gangs and put violent offenders behind bars.
27. Work with Congress on a Restoring National Security Act. Rebuilds our military by eliminating the defense sequester and expanding military investment; provides Veterans with the ability to receive public VA treatment or attend the private doctor of their choice; protects our vital infrastructure from cyber-attack; establishes new screening procedures for immigration to ensure those who are admitted to our country support our people and our values.
28. Work with Congress on a Clean up Corruption in Washington Act. Enacts new ethics reforms to Drain the Swamp and reduce the corrupting influence of special interests on our politics.

Obama "you didn't build that" takes credit for $2 per gallon gasoline when he said $2.50 per gallon goal of Newt Gingrich in 2012 was a pipe dream

What a schmuck.

Here:

The progress we made with respect to carbon emissions has been greater than any country on earth. And gas is $2 a gallon. 

The best headline of the day addresses outgoing Sen. Harry Reid and the horse he rode in on, but they can hardly give the paper away

Half of the US population lives in the blue counties . . .

What do 3 Republicans, a Democrat and a lesbian have in common in Wisconsin?

Low information voters.

And Sally Kohn said Trump supporters would be angry

Like Trump's a Muslim or something

Washington State is a pain in the ass: 5 days after the election only 83% of the vote is in because they mail it in

Tina Brown asks us to imagine the agony experienced by Hillary Clinton having to endure 15 months of "grandstanding and gladhanding"

The horror. The horror.

Here.

Liberal death wish: 8.2 million Obama voters repulsed by Hillary stay home and Democrats lose everything

Republicans could have run Incitatus and won.

My wife just told me a friend of ours never heard of Wikileaks and voted for Hillary

Well, he does work in Chicago.

I think I'm going to need therapy for many years to cope with this devastating development.

Democrats blame their own Bernie Sanders left for not showing up at the polls to elect Hillary, ignore that she was a horrible candidate

It's like Rush Limbaugh blaming 4 million phantom conservatives for not showing up to elect Romney, who bested McCain by a million votes, when the Democrats can point to 4.6 to 8.2 million actual Obama voters who abandoned Hillary.

When it comes to the establishment in the two political parties not getting it, the Democrats do it better as usual.

From "Seething liberals vow revolution in Democratic Party" at The Hill:

In an election determined by enthusiasm, some blame Bernie Sanders supporters for either not showing up or for suppressing turnout by refusing to rally behind Clinton at an earlier date.

“The Sanders people should be mad at themselves,” said one well-connected Democratic strategist. “If they had come out to vote, Donald Trump wouldn’t be president. If they were trying to prove a point, all they’ve done is further damage everything they claim to be fighting for. It’s somewhat typical of that crowd.” ...

“Progressives showed up,” [Jacob] Limon said, noting that the election in Texas was closer than it has been in 20 years. The problem, he said, was Clinton’s trustworthiness.

Communist supporters of the Trotskyist Socialist Alternative Party are NOT MY COUNTRYMEN

Of course they hate Trump. They hate America and everyone who loves it.

Seattle, WA, 11-9-16

Back-out California (LaLaLand) from the election totals and Trump wins by 2 million votes

Clinton: 61.15 million total minus 5.86 million in CA = 55.29 million votes

Trump: 60.48 million total minus 3.15 million in CA = 57.33 million votes

Trump wins by 2.04 million votes everywhere else (America)

Democrats never take responsibility for anything: Hillary blames FBI's Comey for her loss

Wah, wah, wah.

Here.

Hillary's horrible candidacy aside, Republicans should be worrying about stagnating popular vote totals

Bush 2004: 62 million

McCain 2008: 60 million

Romney 2012: 60. 9 million

Trump 2016: 60.5 million

Republican average: 60.85

Democrat average: 63.88 (John Kerry and Hillary Clinton 60.1; Barack Obama 2x 67.7)

Republicans are just one more articulate, bright, clean, nice-looking minority person away from another slaughter.

Ya think? WaPo: "It's possible that Clinton supporters did not show up on Election Day"

The latest tally shows Hillary not getting 8.361 million votes in 2016 which Obama got in 2008. No matter what Trump's coalition was in 2016, its size shows little variation from 2008 and 2012. There was no sea change of support for his candidacy.

The answer for Clinton's loss is in the disarray among Democrats because their candidate was so horrible, which is why the media have portrayed Trump that way. It's liberal projection syndrome all over again. Hillary Clinton was the worst candidate for president in at least a generation. "More sooty baggage than a 90-car freight train" was how Camille Paglia put it 3 years ago. Democrats should have listened to her.

WaPo, recognizing that the proper comparison is with 2008, not 2012:

Absent final turnout numbers, it is still too early to assess whether these shifting vote patterns are the result of differential turnout among Clinton and Trump supporters or the result of genuine voter conversion. It’s possible that a sizable chunk of Latino Clinton supporters, in addition to white women, African Americans, and Asian Americans, did not show up on Election Day. It’s also possible that a significant portion of these voters were willing to overlook Trump’s incendiary remarks and vote for him based on other factors, like the need to shake up “politics as usual.”

As usual, the stupid party doesn't even know why it won

8.748 million Democrat voters who voted for Obama in 2008 didn't vote for Hillary in 2016.

It was a battle of the midget titans, a swordfight between fleas.

That's all.

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News reports headline over and over a mere 100 protesters in downtown Grand Rapids last night whining that Trump is not their president

And on election night 148,160 said he was, 48.3% of all Kent County, Michigan voters.

Back in the good old days, construction workers would have beaten up anti-Trump protesters, but not now because they're all illegal aliens

The New York Times, May 9, 1970:

"War Foes Here Attacked By Construction Workers".

Hey Ann Coulter: Republicans lost only 2 of 25 US Senate races because 4.1 million Democrats didn't turnout in 2016, 4.8 million voted for somebody else

Turnout 2008: 131.5 million

Turnout 2016: 127.4 million

Obama 2008: 69.5 million

Hillary 2016: 60.6 million

Law and order progress in Nebraska: Death penalty restored 61% to 39%, overturning legislature's 2015 ban

Politico.com

The week's biggest winner is Jeb Bush, because he can still hope someday to become America's first woman president

#NeverTrump Liberal GOP Sen. Mark Kirk defeated in IL

See ya!

Trump victory in WI in 2016 is explainable by decline in turnout relative to 2012

Trump beat Hillary in Wisconsin in 2016 by just 24,081 votes.

With turnout from 2012 down by 91,000, one could explain Trump's victory by saying Wisconsin Democrats stayed home in enough numbers in 2016 to help elect Trump. And since of the last three presidential elections turnout in Wisconsin was highest in 2012 at 3.068 million when the state helped return the incumbent Democrat to office, the argument possesses considerable plausibility.

Compared with 2008, however, this explanation fails since 2016 turnout undershot 2008 by just 6,000, not enough to account for Trump's victory over Hillary.

Both Iowa and Wisconsin were slow to the trend of turnout peaking in 2008 when the popular Democrat Obama won in an election with still unequaled turnout of 131.5 million nationwide.

Trump victory in IA was genuine and not attributable to turnout changes

Trump beat Hillary by 146,182 votes in Iowa in 2016.

The 2016 turnout was only 25,000 lower than in 2012, but 20,000 higher than in 2008.

In the last three presidential elections the turnout high in Iowa was in 2012 at 1.582 million.

#NeverTrump Sen. Kelly "Free Condoms" Ayotte defeated in NH by 743 votes

Poster girl for the muddled message.

On the third day after Election 2016 the totals remain incomplete in five states

IL 1% out
WA 24% out
NJ 1% out
UT 18% out
OR 1% out

Revulsion Election update: Trump got lucky, underperformed Romney by 1.4 million votes, McCain by 450,000 votes

Hillary underperformed Obama 2012 by 6.2 million, Obama 2008 by . . . 9.8 million.

Democrats elected Trump by not voting for Hillary.

James Pethokoukis, permanently added to the Enemies List

Sean Trende at Real Clear Politics is some expert on elections

Rush Limbaugh is repeating stupid from National Review, that Trump could have beaten Obama in 2012

This will become the new factoid to replace the "94 million not working but eating" myth and the "4 million stayed home in 2012" myth and the 99ers myth.

Heavy sigh.

Revulsion for Hillary: Some Trump victories wholly dependent on turnout undershooting 2008 levels in four high population states

TX: turnout up 0.8 million, Trump beat Hillary by 0.814 million

FL: turnout up 1.0 million, Trump beat Hillary by 0.12 million

PA: turnout down by 100 thousand, Trump beat Hillary by 68 thousand

OH: turnout down by 400 thousand, Trump beat Hillary by 454 thousand

GA: turnout up 0.1 million, Trump beat Hillary by 0.231 million

NC: turnout up 0.4 million, Trump beat Hillary by 0.177 million

MI: turnout down by 200 thousand, Trump beat Hillary by 12 thousand

AZ: turnout down by 300 thousand, Trump beat Hillary by 84 thousand

The revulsion for Hillary election: In the top 14 states by population, 2016 turnout undershot 2008 by 5.4 million net

CA: down 4.7 million

TX: up 0.8 million

FL: up 1.0

NY: down 0.5

IL: down 0.1

PA: down 0.1

OH: down 0.4

GA: up 0.1

NC: up 0.4

MI: down 0.2

NJ: down 0.7

VA: up 0.2

WA: down 0.9

AZ: down 0.3

Back out CA and the net down is 0.7 million from 2008.

Trump states had turnout net up 1.3 million from 2008. In the traditionally Democrat states Trump won, it appears to be partly due to Democrats not turning out for Hillary. Only in VA did Trump lose where turn out was up from 2008.

Clinton states apart from CA had turnout net down 2 million from 2008. 

Trump did it his way and isn't about to stop now

Has anybody checked on P. J. O'Rourke to make sure he's OK?

Maybe John Kasich knows.

National Review contributor tries to make the case that Trump 2016 would have beaten Obama 2012

The author repeatedly mentions that he knows he's comparing apples to oranges but never adjusts his figures for population growth over the period.

As of this morning, Trump is underperforming Romney by 1.9 million votes, but the country has grown by 9 million since 2012.

The Trump performance figure in 2016 presupposes having so much more to work with from the increased population growth but still comes up short of Romney who had so much less to work with because of a smaller population. 

Trump toyed with the idea of competing in 2012 but wisely left Romney to do that and fail, knowing instinctively that the shiny, happy and clean novelty incumbent was going to be very hard to beat.

Obama was beatable in 2012, had fewer than 500,000 votes in four states east of the Mississippi gone a different way, but Romney possessed insufficient charisma compared to Obama, too few boots on the ground to make up for that, and the formidable problem of Obama's incumbency.

And on top of all that, Romney was a lousy candidate. His wife had to reassure us that "Mitt doesn't change positions".

As with all fortunes from Chinese cookies, always add "in bed" for maximum amusement. 

Trump estimated to have spent about $5 per vote to win, Clinton $10 per vote to lose

Story here.

Polling in Wisconsin was the poster boy for polling failure in 2016

From the story here:

There were no surveys released this year from Wisconsin that showed Trump with a lead. 

Clinton held a 6.5 point lead in the Badger State heading into Election Day, and the state was not even discussed as on par with Michigan or Pennsylvania as a potential blue state pick-up for Trump.

Trump’s victory in Wisconsin — a state that has not gone for the GOP nominee since 1984 — helped him seal the deal.

In Michigan and Pennsylvania, deep blue states the GOP candidate has not won in decades, polls showed the race tightening in the home stretch, but only one poll, from Trafalgar Group, showed Trump with the lead.

The revulsion election, Obama vs. Hillary, shows 10.25 million missing Democrat voters, and Trump underperforming both Romney and McCain

Obama garnered 69.499 million votes in 2008, so far in 2016 Hillary has just 59.245 million.

Trump is underperforming Romney by 1.912 million votes, 59.022 million to 60.934 million, and also McCain, who collected 59.950 million votes in 2008, by just shy of 1 million votes.

Expect changes to these spreads as the 2016 numbers finalize. 

The revulsion election update: turnout down 3.6% from 2012

So far 124.6 million have voted in 2016, down 4.6 million from 2012 when 129.2 million voted.

Expect revisions in this space in coming days.

That useless rag USA Today says turnout was up 4.7%, missing the revulsion election

"Voter turnout up 4.7% around the country", says that useless rag USA Away. 

The data in the upper Midwest says otherwise.

In Michigan, turnout was 4.7 million, a little lower than in 2012 when 4.8 million showed up. In 2008 5 million did.

In Wisconsin, turnout was 2.9 million vs. 3.1 million in 2012 and 3 million in 2008.

In Pennsylvania 6 million turned out yesterday, the same as in 2008, up slightly from 2012's 5.8 million.

In Ohio there's been a steady decline since 2008 when 5.7 million turned out. In 2012 it fell to 5.6 million and just 5.3 million in Election 2016.

When the final numbers come in, I'll bet we'll see this phenomenon of suppressed turnout in other places as well. And generally speaking, suppressed turnout favors Republicans because Republicans are often more energized, more scrupulous and more dutiful, as was the case yesterday.

What we had here was a revulsion election. People stayed home because they couldn't vote for either candidate. And because the voters found Hillary more intolerable than The Donald, Mr. Trump is our new president. The smoke generated by the ugliness of the battle on the field obscured the fact of troops staying behind in camp.

In the end America chose the rake over the robber, which was the right choice.

But don't confuse it with a sea change.

Polling on the morning of Election 2016 in the toss-ups vs. the outcome

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Florida: Trump wins by 1.4, vs. 0.2 predicted

Maine CD2: Trump wins by 9.8 with 90% counted vs. 0.5 predicted

New Hampshire: Clinton wins by 0.6 vs. 0.3 with 97% counted (!)

Nevada: Clinton wins by 2.4 vs. Trump predicted by 0.8

North Carolina: Trump wins by 3.8 vs. 1.0 predicted

Pennsylvania: Trump wins by 1.1 vs. Clinton predicted by 1.9

Colorado: Clinton wins by 2.2 with 88% counted vs. 2.9 predicted

Iowa: Trump wins by 9.4 with 99% counted vs. 3.0 predicted

Michigan: Trump winning by 0.3 vs. Clinton predicted by 3.4

Ohio: Trump wins by 8.6 vs. 3.5 predicted

Arizona: Trump wins by 4.0 with 98% counted vs. 4.0 predicted (!)

Maine: Clinton wins by 3.0 with 91% counted vs. 4.5 predicted

Georgia: Trump wins by 5.7 vs. 4.8 predicted

Virginia: Clinton wins by 4.7 with 99% counted vs. 5.0 predicted

New Mexico: Clinton wins by 8.3 vs. 5.0 predicted

Wisconsin: Trump wins by 1.0 vs. Clinton predicted by 6.5 (arguably the biggest upset of the evening)

Trump tells the nation Hillary called him to concede

Fox reports Hillary has called Trump to concede

VP elect Mike Pence is taking the stage.

The numbskulls on Fox are still debating whether Trump can claim victory on stage

Trump shocked by taking Wisconsin in addition to Florida and Ohio, then Pennsylvania put him over the top, and Michigan and Arizona will put the nails in Clinton's coffin.

Over an hour ago the New York Times projected Trump to win with 305.

All this talk at Fox is just jibber jabber.

Thanks to Mitch McConnell the Scalia seat will be filled by Donald Trump

Jonathan Turley is saying right now that Trump is going to make almost unprecedented changes to the make-up of the Supreme Court.

Hillary hasn't gone to bed

She's bleaching every memory device in sight.

Asian stocks plunge on Trump victory

The Nikkei 225 is down over 5% at this hour. The Hang Seng is down over 3%. Smaller losses elsewhere in Asia.

Trump is coming for you, Asia.