imagine if trump won the pop and hill the electoral. rigged, indeed.

There's our ol friend (finally)

She's been crying.

How long till she loses it?

imagine devoting the majority of your life to public service and you lose to a guy who started his political career by claiming the POTUS isn't an American citizen.

then launched his campaign by claiming all Mexicans are rapists

It's like if a kid was excited for Christmas morning and then went down to see that their parents had been murdered and their house is on fire.

I was just in a pizza shop in reading and was the only white person. The mood was eery. No one talked the entire time

jamiethekiller wrote:still can't reconcile how badly she lost outside of any major city. How do they think Trump is going to serve them!?

I covered Central and Northeast PA for the past two years for work, basically living in both for the better part of last year as well. I keep up on the news in Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Harrisburg, York, etc. pretty regularly.

The most-covered topics, besides crime and typical local news, include:
* Opiod crisis - deaths, overdoses, community sessions, etc.
* Layoff concerns due to M&A activity (ex. Mondalez takeover of Hershey rumors)
* Looks back at what ______ was like in 19__

As has been widely reported, rural white america is going through a major identity crisis, and Trump's ability to target that anxiety is what carried him. This is a part of America that not only has lost hope, but has no voice or specific entity to blame for their troubles.

What I can't understand after regularly interacting with people in this region for the past two years is how they continue to believe that he truly has their best interests at heart. Rural PA people are not ones to BS and typically see through BS immediately. And yet, they love this guy. Is that a sign of their desperation, a sign of how good of a con man Trump is, or some of both?

It remains to be seen what Trump can or can't do as President, obviously. But there is no fucking way he reverses the trends of automation and globalization, which are the main factors to blame for the loss of the manufacturing jobs that this demographic relied on for generations.

What should be a wake up call is that, deep down, I am sure much of rural PA and rural America know all of this is true, but they still see Trump as their best option.

I can see Donald in front of his TV set planning Hillary's transfer to Gitmo.

CNN analyzing all the things represented by the Clintons wearing purple. Mystery, spirituality, mourning, anti-bullying .... and oh hey it's red and blue mixed together how about that

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/5-huge ... =rss&rss=1

so sad

we see who Obama is over these next two months

Wonder how long until he renames the country in his name.

Maybe the guy who didn't release his tax returns will improve government transparency

Current President Barack Obama is set to speak soon.

Wow.

I called a Trump victory a while back.

A lot of things had to come together and they did - for him.

The polling was way off - I had been hearing this from friends of mine who do this sort of work for many months. That was the driving force behind my guess that Trump would win. Hillary's personality and the economy were also major factors.

Now the Repubs hold all the keys - Senate, House and Executive. Trump isn't going to have too much difficulty getting things done now.

DC is a very odd place to be this morning.