Yes, my thinking was Hillary would win because basically most signs pointed to that and Trump was a very very self destructive candidate. I thought it would be close though and that Hillary would win by a slim margin. It seemed a lot of people felt she would have a giant victory and that's what most in the media predicted but there was all along one giant indicator that she would struggle.

The country during the primaries voted in a very big way against establishment candidates. Trump destroyed the establishment Republicans in the primary. The Republican party had a gigantic WTF moment watching this happen and obviously had no clue what to do or how to handle it.

Watching the Democrats in this presidential race was very familiar to me. I had already seen this show in Massachusetts. Clinton vs Trump was basically Coakley vs Brown all over again. The Democrats were all puffed up and arrogant thinking that there was no way they could lose in both races. After all there was no way Bluest of Blue voters in Massachusetts would vote to replace the "Liberal Lion" Ted Kennedy with anybody but another Democrat right? And the Clinton campaign and the DNC basically were popping the corks on the champagne and preparing the fireworks displays when Trump won the nomination. Because really, who would vote for a nutty reality TV star and basically lousy businessman whose catch phrase was "You're fired!" and liked to brag about how he could grope women and walk into their dressing room to gawk at them changing.

Well, in both cases the Democrats had their heads totally up their collective asses. And both times I tried to tell people "Look we have a big problem here." and in both cases for doing so I mostly just got a lot of grief.

I don't really feel like there is a place anymore for my voice in this political landscape. I feel like the only voices that matter or are heard now are the ones screaming how much they hate the other side. The anger now is so great that no matter what one says it is taken as betrayal or as a reason to fight. Sorry for the personal aside I guess this entire process just really got to me this time and I feel pretty hurt by it.

So, was I surprised by Trump winning? A bit, yes. Mainly because all the money and power players seemed entirely aligned behind Hillary and in general...I believe in following the money more than polls to predict this stuff...that would normally mean that Clinton should have won.

However, the one thing I said about this was if they actually count the votes...because I felt it was debatable that we would get an accurate vote count...then Trump had a very good chance to win.

So, if you want to say something good about this election, and honestly I don't have much good to say about it, it would be that this actually appears to have been the real deal. It was democracy in action. They really counted the votes because if there was ever going to be a fix in it would have been in this election because all of Wall Street and the banks, Big Energy, all the money, and even most big name Republicans all were backing Hillary.

She had it all and was running against a guy that was rated as one of the worst presidential candidates in our history that also was completely self destructive. A guy that was so divisive that his very presence in this election cycle was supposed to have a catastrophic effect on the Republican party for years. Even on election day people in his own campaign were saying it would take a miracle for him to win.

Well, I guess we should all believe in miracles now. In polling it showed 60% of the country could not stand the guy...and they voted for him anyway.

They said the Latino vote would crush Trump. Well, more Latinos voted for Donald Trump than voted for Mitt Romney. Trump "broke the blue wall" meaning in states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan he won because Democrats voted for him as well just like in that long ago Massachusetts senate race Democrats voted for Scott Brown.

I understand how it happened and Michael Moore was not the first or only person to predict it could happen. There were plenty of people saying "Danger Will Robinson!"

You could see Clinton had serious potential to struggle and a lot played into that. I also think that Americans hate the idea of someone being "entitled" to the presidency and everybody (SNL skits, comedians, talk shows) all played up the idea that Clinton felt the job belonged to her...that she was heir to the throne...and along with the fact that they did not like her, thought she was dishonest, did not trust her...they did not want to hand her the job because they felt nobody is "heir" to the presidency.

So, the vote was not just a rejection of Clinton it was a rejection of the idea that anybody is "entitled" to the job as well.

Combine this with the fact that Clinton ran a horrible campaign. Her entire message appeared to be "Vote for me because I stink less than the other guy." and that's not a message that will win you an election. You also know you have a major problem when people in your own campaign say that if they could just hide her somewhere until November 8th Hillary could win easily.

And then there is of course what Moore says in his video. Trump was the chance for all of these forgotten, dumped on, made fun of people to throw a hand grenade into the system...and they took it. Yes, those of us that live on the East and West coasts and fly over them on the way back and forth between the two maybe did not grasp how horribly wrong so many of these people's lives have gone.

To me it is sort of sad that we can have this outpouring of compassion when we read a story of people's water being poisoned in a run down suburb but the same people that are so filled with compassion when that happens explode with hatred, anger, and name calling when these poor people vote for Trump because they feel it is their only option to say "Fuck you!" to a government that appears to not give a shit about them.

Clinton was exactly the kind of establishment politician that so many voters rejected during the primary process. Our system has been failing these people horribly for about the last 40 years. Should we really be surprised that the people the system continues to fail voted against that system?

Are we really surprised that these people that have lost their jobs, their retirement money, their homes, would turn on the Clintons? While Bill and Hillary spent the time since Bill left the White House raking in 3 billion dollars from all over the planet and selling off bits and pieces of our government in the process?

I don't think Trump is the answer by any stretch and I certainly think he looks at that 3 billion and thinks "If they got 3 billion I can get 3 times that amount!"

This is the tragedy. I understand why these people voted for Trump but I find it highly unlikely he will help them nor keep any of his campaign promises. He certainly is not going to send Hillary or Bill to jail for doing something he would foam at the mouth to do himself.

You want to know how I think Trump sees all the stuff he said and promised during his nutty campaign?

It was just business. He saw that was a path to "winning" and he took it.

I think this whole thing will go the same way Scott Brown's senate run went. People threw the grenade to send the message...and in 4 years they will vote this guy out when he reveals he was not going to do what he said he was going to do...if he does not come unhinged and do something that causes him to get impeached before his 4 years are up.