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I saw this interview yesterday and I thought it was pretty interesting. It's a behind the scenes look at how Trump was able to flip a number of States.

Setting the issues and likes/dislikes aside, I think one would have to admit that the campaign he ran was brilliant and extremely efficient. He spent peanuts compared to most Presidential elections. Now I do know that especially early on he was getting hundreds of dollars worth of free press (several months ago I heard the estimate was around a billion dollars worth??) but you have to believe that was also calculated. Early on they knew that the key to victory was punching the Establishment, both Left and Right, in the face. The more I see of Trump, the more I see that supports my conclusion that candidate Trump was a caricature. By making bold and inflammatory statements, he knew it would make headlines for free. The media ate it up thinking it would sink him. The more coverage they gave him, the more people saw Trump standing up to the Establishment. I don't know if I'd give him all the credit, but his campaign did a masterful job of manipulating the media.

http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/11/15/donald-trumps-digital-guru-explains-how-they-won-election

hire that man

If he went to Harvard .. we prolly will .. *L* ...

61,917,919 votes (47.9%)
60,913,096 votes (47.1%)

More than a million more votes for Clinton, but 58 more electoral votes for Trump. He targeted the right ones needed to win.

And, as many have said, if the popular vote was the decider, both candidates would have run far different campaigns.

The popular vote was none of the above since more didn't vote than voted for either of them.

Man, I wish that would have been the way it worked.

These newspaper reporters are brutal.

Today's Hartford Courant (CT's major paper) has the headline Trump Denies Team Strife.

Thankfully I had to take an English elective in college so I took the easiest one there was - Journalism 101.

So allow me to interpret the above headline:

Reporter: "Mr. Trump, is your team in strife?"
Trump: "No".

Trump Denies Team Strife

I have to give Trump credit. He outworked the hell out of Hillary. I feel Hillary was lazy and arrogant, but Trump worked his azz off. Can't take away his hard work even if the other candidate did a horrible campaigning job.

The way Hillary lost this year and to Obama in 2008 will haunt her.

I think this last one will haunt her more than the previous one.

Last time, she lost in the Divisional playoffs.
This time she lost the Super Bowl.

"Hillary Rodham Clinton: The Buffalo Bills of national politics."

She has nobody but herself to blame. Obama and Trump have charisma, energy, and personality. It's something she has never had.

Her entire campaign was based around pandering and people saw through it and were not inspired.

It didn't help that nobody knew what the hell her message was about, "I'm with her" wtf?

Her entire message was ...

"He Sucks" ..

The last month of the campaign thats all she ever said ..

She looks like hell ... u see her on tv last night? ..

Can't believe how bad she looks ...

Not sure where this should go ...

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/11/17/...ze-germany.html

'Pure hatred': Translator reveals how Muslim refugees want to 'Islamize' Germany

A translator at refugee camps in Germany has claimed Muslim migrants hate Christians and want to Islamize the country.


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The woman, 39, from Eritrea, came to Germany as a refugee herself in 1991, before volunteering at asylum centers to “give something back.”

TRUMP ELECTION PUTS PRESSURE ON MERKEL TO TAKE LIBERAL LEAD

But the Arabic speaker said what she discovered when working with migrants over the last five years shocked her.

During her time at a number of centers across the country, she said she discovered Muslim refugees preaching “pure hatred” of Christians.

Muslim children were told by their parents not to play with Christian kids.

And she herself was told it was a sin for her to help feed and defend Christians.

She told German Catholic website Kath.net: “They want Germany to be Islamized. They despise our country and our values.”

She claimed many of the migrants showed their “true colors” only when they were away from people of other religions.

The translator explained: “Pure hatred against non-believers is preached, and children are brought here from an early age here in Germany.

“It’s very similar in asylum housing, where Muslim boys refuse to play with Christians.

“Some women told me, ‘We will multiply our numbers. We must have more children than the Christians because it’s the only way we can destroy them here.’”

She said other translators were a part of the problem, claiming they prevented Christian refugees claiming permanent asylum by failing to tell them they were entitled to have their questionnaires translated.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/trump-administration-wants-a-continuing-resolution-through-march

Trump Administration Wants A Short-Term Spending Bill Through March

In a closed door meeting with House Republicans Thursday morning, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) told his members that the Trump administration wants a short-term continuing resolution to keep the government funded through the early months of 2017.

According to multiple Republican congressmen in the meeting, the Trump administration is advocating for a continuing resolution through March.

The current spending bill runs through Dec. 9. The maneuver would give Republicans more leverage after the first of the year when President-elect Trump is sworn in and the Republicans have control of the House and the Senate as well.

It may help them expand military spending while making cuts to domestic programs. The original plan had been to try to pass as many appropriations bills as possible in the final weeks of the lame duck in an effort to not let legislators' work this year be for naught.

“The bottom line is that we must fulfill our constitutional duty to responsibly fund the federal government, and do right by the taxpayers who have elected us. To this end, my Committee will begin working immediately on a Continuing Resolution (CR) at the current rate of funding to extend the operations of our government through March 31, 2017," House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers (R-KY) said in a statement. "While I’m disappointed that the Congress is not going to be able to complete our annual funding work this year, I am extremely hopeful that the new Congress and the new Administration will finish these bills."

In the meeting, Pence warned members that the months ahead would be far more rigorous than many members were used to as the Republican administration sought to carry out their priorities in the first 100 days.

Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) said Pence told the conference: "Advise your families that you need to be prepared for work."

"You're going to be working a lot more aggressively with a more aggressive schedule than perhaps we have seen in a long time," Meadows said Pence told the group.

Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO) told reporters Pence told the conference to "buckle up."

The most conservative wing of the Republican conference was especially pleased with the news that the Trump administration wanted a CR through March. Members of the Freedom Caucus had long been advocating for a CR, arguing it might give Republicans more of a chance to bargain. However, when it looked like Hillary Clinton was on track to win the election and Democrats might take the Senate, it was a riskier strategy. Now, it appears it will give Republicans the time and the space to work out their own vision for funding.

Punting the CR to March, however, also presents some risks for Republicans. As Pence outlined in the meeting Thursday, the Trump administration is hoping to move rapidly on a key priorities including repealing Obamacare and passing a major infrastructure bill. Both of those goals require a tremendous amount of work and political capital in their own right. Having to manage another spending bill early in the administration could distract from Trump's first agenda items."

According to members in the meeting, moderate Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA) expressed concerns about the CR strategy.

Well we Republicans don't want to shut the government down just yet so we best have a spending bill to keep she open.

And with someone like her, that tactic will never work.
All the DC pros (R&D) who ever worked with her all said the same thing:

1. She's tireless
2. She works hard with everyone to get results
3. She's one of the most knowledgeable 'policy wonks' inside the beltway.

Now, here's my thought about that: those are the kinds of people I actually want working in DC, regardless of the party they represent. Back in the day, Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neil used to go at it hammer & tong all day, then get together after work and tip drinks for hours. Next day- same thing. I don't think there's much of that any more.

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If she'd tried to run an issues-based campaign, things might have turned out differently for her. A sizable crowd of Americans still actually care about campaign platform. That was sorely missing in both campaigns.And with no informational red meat to chew on, it became a battle of personalities. She was bound to lose a contest like that.

Hillary's biggest mistake was trying to play the game on Donald's court. Sure-fire checkmark in the "loss" column.

She'd have done much, much better if she'd simply ignored him- and pressed her policy agenda at every rally.

She's one of those politicians who are better on the job than campaigning for it. She's horrible at a rally podium.

yup.
this.

I couldn't say it better than Devil did ... so i won't even try ...

I will add one thing that IMO told me alot of what is in her heart ..

When she was testifying in front of the congressional committee and she said "What Difference does it make" ... I couldn't believe I heard that ...

Kent State hoops fan for the next 4 years at least ...

An example of when adults can learn from the kids .... Go click on the link .. GREAT GREAT STORY!!!!

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/kent-state-...-062758049.html

Make America great. Spending on a credit card again. That worked so well the last time right?

Ask Obama.