Trending story that Clinton won just 57 counties is untrue

The defeat of Democrat Hillary Clinton at the hands of President-elect Donald J. Trump in Florida was predictable and baked in long before Election Day.

That feeling is called democracy. I hope that Democrats can extend an olive branch to Republicans while honoring the outcome of this past election and subsequent power shift that will follow.

“I’ve lost the desire to attempt the courtship phase”.

Trump won Wisconsin 1,409,467 to 1,382,210 (47.0 percent to 46.9 percent). It would be wrong to deny him the victory he earned by heaving a superior ground game in Democrat-leaning states. This means that the art of political persuasion is still more important to winning presidential elections than the mechanics of mobilization.

Green Party candidate Jill Stein has raised $3 million in a crowd funding campaign and she’s feverishly trying to beat the clock to have full recounts done in three states: Wisconsin (10 electoral votes), MI (16 10 electoral votes) and Pennsylvania (20 electoral votes). However, I think it’s also dumb: say what you will about the Republicans, but what they’ve been doing has been working. But like it or not, the technical majority aligns with Clinton. And I would have said this even if Hillary Clinton had won. If one wanted to define either of those terms in quantifiable language, you might go with “won the electoral college by at least 30 points”, in which case Barack Obama’s 2008 victory, and Bill Clinton’s 1992 and 1996 victories, would both pass muster.

The most divisive campaign in recent history relied on liberal America’s cognitive dissonance, white America’s frustration with traditional politics, and the corporate media’s eagerness to boost their ratings by turning the election into a TV reality show. I was voting for a moral high ground.

Fifty-seven percent of Republicans and 33 percent of Democrats responded “Yes”. And it is worth being clear, despite protests to the contrary that attempted to justify Hillary’s position, characterizing half of Trump supporters as “deplorables” who are “irredeemable” was and is the sort of holier-than-thou perspective that contributes to the sad state of the Democratic Party. In letters sent out to elected officials this week, the American Hospital Association and the Federation of American Hospitals warned that they could suffer massive financial hits if the GOP repeals Obamacare and doesn’t offer some kind of funding mechanism to help them cope with the costs of treating uninsured patients, as well as for losing Medicare and Medicaid payments that were cut as part of the initial legislation. However, I would plea that we wait and see what happens before we overreact. But unless Democrats present an alternative version of progress, it will be hard to fight against the “greatness” Trump is promising.

Devin Mobley, a senior student at the University who voted for Clinton, shares my concerns in the protests against Trump and his supporters.

“I think there’s not much to be gained right now from being in the public eye”, he said.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, the bombastic businessman with a talent for upset, walked away with the electoral vote.

That said, President-elect Trump is not wasting time and is simply proceeding with his plans and a hand-picked transition team and Cabinet selections that should make any skeptic proud.

Ryan drew the support of almost a third of House Democrats, and Pelosi ally New York Congressman Joseph Crowley said, “Democrats are the party with ideas and a vision, but we need to do a better job of connecting with people on the ground who made it clear they weren’t listening or couldn’t hear what we had to say”.