jerseyhoya wrote:Republicans won the state house in Kentucky for the first time in 95 years. And they now have a 28 seat majority?

[Even Republican] Dan Johnson, the bishop of Heart of Fire Church in Louisville, won by less than 200 votes. Party officials had asked him to drop out of the race after he posted offensive pictures on Facebook that depicted President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama as apes.

@realDonaldTrump
Wow, the @nytimes is losing thousands of subscribers because of their very poor and highly inaccurate coverage of the "Trump phenomena"
9:16 AM - 13 Nov 2016

Chris Vitale, a longtime Chrysler employee and United Auto Workers member, supported Barack Obama twice, as did his union and his county. But on Tuesday, Mr. Vitale rejected the U.A.W.’s choice, Hillary Clinton, and voted with gusto for Mr. Trump.

“The Republicans that generally get run are anti-manufacturing, anti-Midwest,” said Mr. Vitale, 44, of St. Clair Shores, explaining why he rejected Mitt Romney in 2012 and Senator John McCain in 2008. “Mr. Trump understood our problems right off the bat, without being told by anyone.”

I think everybody in Washington needs a kick in the rear,” Ms. Meadows, 68, said on Thursday as she ate fried fish at a diner in Warren, a weathered city at the county’s southern end. “And I think Washington needs to be done with the Clintons.”

She added, however, that she hoped Mr. Trump would not “do away with the health care” — Mr. Obama’s Affordable Care Act — as he had promised on the campaign trail. Her daughter had obtained subsidized insurance coverage through the law for $50 a month.

“I think he was bluffing,” Ms. Meadows said with a frown.

“We are drowning right now,” she said. “Our vets are homeless. There’s one out of every five American children starving right now. And Clinton wants to open the floodgates and let everybody else in.”

Ms. Rogers, who said she had “loved Bill Clinton as a president” and found Mr. Obama “all right,” added: “There’s people who’ve been here 12 years who don’t even care to learn the language but want to reap all the benefits of this country: food stamps, free health care, Section 8 housing, welfare checks. People are sick of that, especially in Macomb County.”

Many here also complain that poverty and crime are growing. As Macomb helped assure Mr. Trump’s victory on Election Day, it also played a major role in the defeat of a local ballot initiative that would have taxed its residents, and those of four neighboring counties, to build a public transportation system connecting Detroit and its suburbs.

Jason Powrozek, 18, a high school senior from New Baltimore, on the more affluent north side of the county, said he had voted against the transportation measure because “I just felt it would speed up the transport of drugs up here from the inner city.” A first-time voter, he had volunteered for at the county Republican headquarters and went to New York for the Trump campaign’s election night party.

“He tells it like it is,” Jason said of Mr. Trump. “He speaks what people don’t want to say because it’s politically incorrect.”

JUburton wrote:looking forward to the tweets coming from @POTUS

pacino wrote:

@realDonaldTrump
Wow, the @nytimes is losing thousands of subscribers because of their very poor and highly inaccurate coverage of the "Trump phenomena"
9:16 AM - 13 Nov 2016

1. he's not in church on a Sunday at 9am. Evangelicals voted for him 81-16

2. he's going to go after the media. HE'S GOING TO GO AFTER THE MEDIA

CalvinBall wrote:Hate this guy so much