[St Charles Owl]

There isn't a politician on the planet that would have stayed in this race having said the things he said week after week. He benefited from the fact he was not beholden to the Party or the Party line, that he didn't have wealthy backers dictating what he said, that he took little or no lobbyist money and we have a media and population who almost became sanitized to everything he said and dismissed it as "its just Trump" instead of holding him accountable for what he said. He was able to completely trash his opponents with innuendo and half truths whereas everyone else was held to a different standard. Most politicians want a job after an election, so have to temper what they say or do with that in mind, he doesn't need anyone to give him a job and therefore is not bound by the same rules!!

I find it astonishing that he got 45% of the female vote and even 29% of the Latino/Hispanic vote - talk about turkeys voting for Xmas!!!! But the number that really bugs me is the Latino turnout in Florida, where although about 1% more of them actually voted compared to the last election, less than 20% of this key demographic actually voted at all!!!!! Thats a case of Turkeys choosing not to vote for a candidate who plans to abolish Xmas!!! They will bitch and moan about what he now tries to do but as a group they decided not to try to prevent him in the first place, and when you consider how close FL was and how many of them there are, those 29 electoral college votes would have made the whole difference!!!

My optimism for his economic plan is weak at best but you have to hold onto something!!!! He is right about some of the trade deals that have been signed, they have caused (or allowed) companies to move manufacturing jobs overseas without any penalty or recourse and they can now sell the same good over here with little or no tariffs to dissuade them from moving in the first place. Not convinced he can change that but he may actually be the only candidate in decades who has a chance to do so.