It is settled. Donald Trump is to be the 45th President of the USA. He has won the electoral college votes needed to propel him to the White House but may have less number of popular votes than Hillary Clinton. This has happened only 3 times before, the most recent in 2000 when Al Gore lost despite getting half a million more votes than George W Bush. This is because a large margin of victory in a state with a large population gives a big swing in the popular votes. Thus, Trump won Wyoming with 70.1%, Virginia with 68.7% and Oklahoma with 65.3% but Clinton won the populated states of New York with 58.8%, Illinois with 55.4%, California, the most populated state, by 61.5% and District of Columbia by 92.8%. However, this is an election of surprises. Donald Trump will be the first ever president who has never held elected office or served in government or in the army. His wife, Melania will be the second ever First Lady who was born a foreign citizen. Trump, at 70 years of age, will be the oldest president, beating Ronald Reagan, who was 69. Going into the election every opinion poll had Clinton ahead by 1 to 7 points, only USC/Los Angeles Times consistently found for Trump. Why did all the opinion polls get it so wrong? Were they influenced bu their own prejudice against Trump? Trump did not seem to have the support of his own party, the Republicans, having started with 16 opponents in the primaries. Afraid to lose their own seats establishment Republicans deserted him in droves. Even former President, George Bush did not vote for him, maybe because his brother Jeb was humiliated very early in the primaries. Ironically, Republican control of both chambers of the Congress is the highest since 1930s, because of Trump's victory. The Republicans have 51/100 seats in the Senate and 239/435 in the House. Trump will appoint Supreme Court judges, keeping it conservative. In sneering contempt Trump's supporters were dismissed as uneducated, old and white. Clinton labeled them as "basket of deplorables" and the liberal media abused them as dummies. The dummies fought back. However, this was as much a defeat for Barack Obama as it was for Hillary Clinton because he campaigned very hard for her. The biggest surprise was to see Democrat women crying after Clinton's defeat. In 2008, with Iraq stuck in quicksand and the sub-prime crisis she would have waltzed in to the White House. But they voted for Obama because of politically correct guilt. Clinton is associated with Syria, Libya, Ukraine and Iran. Feminists blame a glass ceiling created by men. With over 50% of the population it is actually women.
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