320 million people in this country and we pick Donald Trump?

[kentuck]

How were we able to do that?

I cannot think of a worse person to be President than the moron that now sits in the White House.

How was that possible?

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Russians. Voter suppression. Racism. Hatred and most of all

people showing how much they hated having a wonderfully successful and effective but BLACK president.

They dont care he save their economy and made their lives better, he has black skin.

Putin stole this election ON election day with on the ground assets.

[FSogol]

2. Don't forget ignorance.

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." - H.L. Mencken

[brush]

17. And don't forget the partisan hack Comey who's now trying to rehabilitate his image by trolling...

trump periodically with sanctimonious tweets.

[FarCenter]

3. It's a natural consequence of electing Presidents through a media popularity contest.

[ChubbyStar]

7. Pithy, Precise, & Perfect!

[ismnotwasm]

11. Plus racism.

Plus sexism.

[still_one]

4. Because it is pretty obvious that a large segment of the population havve racist, sexist, and

bigoted leanings

[gyroscope]

5. The electoral college "trumps" the will of the people

but, but, but...I thought it was the job of the electoral college to prevent deranged lunatics like Trump from getting into office? So much for that BS. The electoral college was put in place for the very purpose of usurping the will of the people, a tool of the rich and powerful who ultimately decide the elections.

In the words of Joseph Stalin, 'It's not the people whose votes that count. It's the people who count the votes.'
Which explains why Trump and Putin are best friends.

[onecaliberal]

6. We did NOT pick dump: Clinton won by more than 3 million.

[Hortensis]

9. + a million. We did NOT pick Trump.

That suppurating wound in the oval office is a symptom of the cancer that's taken over the right, and his elevation against the will of the majority is the result of structural weaknesses in our nation that were exploited by enemies both foreign and domestic.

[Lucinda]

8. We didn't. n/t

[kentuck]

10. I know that "we" didn't....

But I was speaking in the generic sense, as in "We, the People".

[Awsi Dooger]

12. Rare convergence of variables

* Fearful bigoted older whites still a huge meaningful demographic
* Working class whites turned off by Obama (Affordable Care Act?) to the point they were desperate for a change
* Trump always successful in bullshit terms, owning an undeserved aura further boosted by the television hosting Apprentice role, which numb skulls view as presidential decision making
* Hillary with low upside as public figure for a quarter century
* Public generally preferring to change parties after 8 years from one side
* Obviously Russia
* Obviously Comey, who acted like a simpleton

Take away any one of them and Hillary probably wins narrowly. But it was always going to be tight, due to the most significant variable among that list -- Hillary's low upside. She is my favorite Democratic nominee of my lifetime but as a handicapper I always knew her absolute peak was 50% or perhaps 51% if everything went perfectly combined with an imploding opponent. Instead, she ended up in the more logical territory of 48%.

Hillary would have won handily in 2008, when we owned the situational edge. It was always a monumental blunder to run Obama first and Hillary second, if they had to be back to back. I emphasized that at the time. The person with the greater charisma and less baggage can prevail in any landscape. The one with more challenges needs to be perfectly placed.

[SamKnause]

13. We did not pick Trump.

The electoral college picked Trump.

Hillary got 3 million more votes then Trump.

Sarah Huckabee said that Americans overwhelmingly voted for Trump.

She said that at today's presser.

That is a LIE !!!!!!!!!

[underthematrix]

14. It's not possible. The actual votes were hacked in some counties in some states.

That's how we got Trump. Otherwise I'd have to believe the majority of white people are the expression of ultimate evil. I do not believe that.

[gyroscope]

15. Princeton computer scientists demonstrate how easy it is to rig electronic voting machines

[uponit7771]

16. "we" didn't pick Benedict Donald