Look
beyond the numbers.
The author is obviously upset with the results as he
wants to know “How this happened” so they look to the numbers for answers. To
quote the Geico commercials, “It’s what they do”.
People get caught up in numbers, so they miss the
point. The left said Trump voters were stupid and should not have been allowed
to vote. They couldn’t accept that their candidate just wasn’t what the people
wanted.
To boil it down to one item, it would be item number
eight when the author said “This was a change
election. And Trump was the change candidate” (Cillizza). Speaking for myself, Trump wasn’t my first choice,
but I voted for him because I wanted somebody different, somebody outside of
politics. Well you can’t get much farther outside of politics than Trump. I
didn’t vote for a Pope or anything like that so all the mudslinging the media
did had no bearing on my vote.
I found a nugget in this article which
is very relevant for today. The last item is about Presidential debates. The
article stated that “…64 percent [] said the debates were an “important” part
of their vote for president []” (Cillizza). Joe Biden could not perform well in a debate against
anyone so, now the left is downplaying the effect a debate has on an election
and using the corona virus as an excuse to not hold any debates. Interesting how the tides change.
Until we talk again.
Cillizza,
Chris. “The 13 most amazing findings in the 2016 exit poll”, The Fix, The
Washington Post, www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/10/the-13-most-amazing-things-in-the-2016-exit-poll/,
10 Nov 2016
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