Another Butt Hurt Canadian weighs in on election, I just do not understand why they feel they have a voice in our elections. Yes, I did mock their choice of Trudeau. Here is some of the post from the Canadian Lawyer no less. kcender
The earthquake hit on November 8, 2016. The tsunami warning may be in effect until 2020. Or longer.
People are hurting, and many are genuinely afraid. There is much to be learned among those who lost, whose fears must be allayed by those who won.
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Today, Sunday November 13th, New Zealand was hit with a huge earthquake – 7.8 or 7.9 on the Richter scale – and the country’s coastline at this hour (15:00 GMT) remains under a tsunami warning. Having been shaken and suffered the damage of the quake, the people are bracing for what may soon come rushing in.
America feels exactly the same.
The political earthquake of the Trump election last week has begun to give way to the waiting game: with the upheaval underneath now past, what is rolling in from the distant sea that might slam America next?
Laying under the quake’s rubble, millions of Americans are shaken and afraid. They can hear the sirens wailing, telling them to run for the hills, but many may not get free from the wreckage in time. Or as is often the case, the wave may not even hit. We don’t know yet. We only have reason to fear.
Who did this?
The people responsible for the election results aren’t hard to find: they are the voters. And the non-voters. Projected turnout in 2016 was 57.9% – the lowest since 1996. What this means is that 42.1% of citizens eligible to cast ballots, failed to do so. That’s kind of amazing when you think about it.
The Election Project website has the numbers: ELECTPROJECT
Where are the Democrats?
The Washington Post on November 15th published some graphics displaying the brutal reality for Democrats: millions fewer people voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 than for Barrack Obama in 2012. Presumably, some of them voted for Trump. But from the lower turnout numbers we know, most just didn’t vote at all.
Among those who did vote…
Demographic information is starting to percolate out from under the psychic wreckage. And yes, if you were older, whiter, richer and Christian, you were more likely to vote for Donald Trump. Note though weirdness, such as the estimate that 14% of LGBTQ Americans voted for Trump too. I don’t know what it means, other than than gay people do their own thinking just like most everyone else.
You can see some cool, evocative graphics of “who voted for who” at the WASHINGTON POST
How did the media miss it?
https://davidkeithlaw.wordpress.com/2016/11/13/earthquakeandtsunami/