Should we have expected this result?

[Mr. Smith]

Yes, yes we should've.

Maybe not in the entirety, but something of the sort as soon as.

A) Sanders did way better than expected

B) The GOP couldn't connive a way to get Kasich the delegates (Kasich vs Clinton would've looked like 1988) to steal it from trump.

C) The midterm happened as it did (with the exceptions of 1986 and 1998, the second midterm seems to guarantee the opposition will regain what's lost)

D) The last time the cycle started off with the opposition having a mass of candidates while the other only had 2, and one of them had baggage, the opposition nominee ended up coming out strong because of all the things that had to be weaved around. When I saw all those names, I knew there'd be trouble for Hillary...I admit I made the mistake of assuming Scott Walker or Marco Rubio would be that person for a while.

E) Hillary always seemed to rise and fall based on something Trump did rather than by anything she did, which usually hurt her.

F) Only George HW Bush and Hoover in the past 100 years broke the 8 year curse [excluding FDR], and they got really effing dirty and nasty to do it, Hillary's campaign wasn't willing to truly get nasty  (sorry but the "Deplorables" thing was not enough).

G) Minority turnout (and to an extent, turnout in general, which had to be through the roof, not lower [as it appeared on election night] or roughly the same as 2012)

H) Brexit, Duterte, and a general Alt-right rise going on.


Ya' know what, I take it back...we shouldn't have expected this result, we should've expected Trump to do even better than he did, and Ayotte and Johnson should've had opposite outcomes.