{"id":18733,"date":"2016-12-20T16:59:46","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T16:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18733"},"modified":"2016-12-20T16:59:46","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T16:59:46","slug":"its-not-a-landslide-donald-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18733","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not a &#8216;landslide,&#8217; Donald &#8230; really"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/trump_donald_getty_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18734\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/trump_donald_getty_1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"trump_donald_getty_1\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/trump_donald_getty_1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/trump_donald_getty_1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>May I call you &#8220;Donald&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>My head is about to explode as I listen to the president-elect refer to his victory over Hillary Rodham Clinton as a &#8220;historic landslide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Historic? Yes. Surely. No one saw this victory coming. No one predicted that Donald J. Trump would win this election, that he would become commander in chief of the world&#8217;s greatest military complex. No one predicted this showman\/reality TV celebrity\/real estate mogul\/serial philanderer\/admitted groper of women would actually get the keys to the White House.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s historic, man.<\/p>\n<p>Landslide? Nope. Not even close to one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/news\/311115-trump-touts-historic-electoral-college-victory\">http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/news\/311115-trump-touts-historic-electoral-college-victory<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He is trailing Clinton by 2.8 million votes. He won enough electoral votes to become elected. He finished with 304 of them; Clinton&#8217;s total ends at 227. Interestingly, Clinton lost more &#8220;faithless electors&#8221; than Trump when the Electoral College cast its vote on Monday; that, too, is &#8220;historic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump cannot possibly actually believe he won in a landslide. He has seen the numbers. He must know about the nation&#8217;s great divide.<\/p>\n<p>He keeps spouting this nonsense. I guess we just need to get used to it. There&#8217;ll be much more to come.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May I call you &#8220;Donald&#8221;? My head is about to explode as I listen to the president-elect refer to his victory over Hillary Rodham Clinton as a &#8220;historic landslide.&#8221; Historic? Yes. Surely. No one saw this victory coming. No one predicted that Donald J. Trump would win this election, that he would become commander in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18733\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s not a &#8216;landslide,&#8217; Donald &#8230; really<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[74,1424,1551,2139,3688,5246],"class_list":["post-18733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-2016-election","tag-donald-trump","tag-electoral-college","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-potus","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18735,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18733\/revisions\/18735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}