In modern election
era, no candidate has talked about elections being rigged even before votes
were cast. Then again, GOP candidate Donald Trump is not your
conventional kind
of candidate. America has never seen anyone like Trump. Besides Obama, no candidate
has captured global attention like Trump, and to his detriment, none has
indirectly conceded defeat long before the first ballot was cast as he appears
to be doing.
the system no longer was rigged. Now
with defeat looking more and more inevitable, the blame game is back and louder
than ever. This time, even the media are not spared. Right from the inception
of his campaign, the media have given Trump more coverage than any candidate on
both sides of the party.
Not really because they were always biased, but
because Trump made himself more accessible to the media. During the primaries
and for most of the general election campaign, Trump got away with almost
everything he said and did. Now that the honeymoon is over and media scrutiny
is on him and exposing things about him he never thought could be done, the
“low life” media are the scum of the earth as far as Trump is concerned. FYI:
The U.S. elections are not conducted like the Nigerian elections.
Unlike
Nigeria where INEC controls elections in the entire country, elections in the
U.S. are handled by the Secretary of State in each state. Some are Republicans,
others Democrats. Each state then conducts the elections through the counties,
Nigeria’s equivalent of the local governments. The county election officials
are either Democrats or Republicans. Now, this doesn’t mean the U.S. electoral
system is flawless.
No, but the possibility of elections being rigged
nationwide to favor one candidate or the other is insane. Actually, there have
been only 31 documented cases of voter fraud out of I billion votes cast in the
United States elections between 2000 and 2014, according to a study by a Loyola
Law School professor.
Trump’s claims of systematic, nationwide voter fraud are bogus
and embarrassing even to some Republicans. It also makes him stand out as a
sore loser who wants to discredit American democratic system to appease his
enlarged ego that can’t stand the possibility of losing, especially losing to a
woman, even when that woman doesn’t belong to the bedroom, the living room and
the other room (pun intended). As if Trump hasn’t had enough self-inflicted
wounds, he says he will only accept the result of the presidential election
only if he wins. Really?
Hillary and Obama
Care Challenges
Just when we thought
we’ve seen the last of October surprise when 11 women came out to accuse Donald
Trump of unwelcome sexual advances against them (accusations Trump vehemently
deny) here comes news that Affordable Care Acts (a.k.a. Obamacare) health insurance
coverage will not be so affordable next year. Americans covered by the ACA
health coverage are expected to experience a 22 percent hike in cost. This is
contrary to all the promises Obama made that the healthcare coverage will be
very affordable, hence its name. This is bad news for Hillary Clinton, a
staunch supporter of Obamacare.
Under normal circumstances in an election year
that has a conventional opponent, this could have probably dealt Hillary a
terrible blow, but Trump has been such a gift to Hillary and Democrats that
this would not be as big a deal as it should have. For instance, this is when
Trump should be talking about an alternative plan for Obamacare, but all he
does is to say that he will repeal Obamacare and replace it with something
better.
Which is what? Well, he wouldn’t say. I guess it’s one of his secrets
meant to keep American voters in suspense, which doesn’t help him one bit. And
with about 10 days to the elections, millions of Americans already have cast
their votes and early voter turnout is making Hillary and Democrats feel good
about November 8.
Phony Polls?
Trump says don’t
believe the polls. Actually, he says the polls are phony. This implies that all
the major pollsters have conspired to manufacture statistics to make him look
bad by having his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton lead him in all major
(and even minor) polls. Sounds familiar? Well, when Obama was seeking
reelection in 2012, all the major polls had him leading his GOP challenger Mitt
Romney, but some prominent Republicans dismissed the polls and urged their
supporters not to believe the “phony” polls.
According to them, their internal
polling showed that Romney would beat Obama by at least 6 percentage points.
Then came election day, Romney so believed the GOP internal polling that he
only wrote his acceptance speech. By the time Obama was projected the winner,
Romney had to quickly put a concession speech together. Fact is, the same
“phony pollsters” are the ones who correctly predicted that Trump would win
many of the GOP primaries, and he did. Trump loved polls back then and always
quoted them to show how well he was doing. Now that they’re predicting a Trump
defeat, they’re phony.
Electoral College
Picture
For all the
Trumpsters out there, get on your knees and pray like you’ve never prayed
before. Well, prayers alone would not be enough. You need to go on dry fasting
– 10 days dry. Only divine intervention can stop Hillary from getting to the
White House. With 10 days to the November 8 presidential election, the
Electoral College picture has become crystal clear that Hillary Clinton would
become the next American president – the first female ever to be the leader of
the Free World.
If the election was held today, the projection is that Hillary
would win 307 electoral college votes to Trump’s 179. It may not end up that
bad for Trump. One big problem is that Trump is in danger of losing even traditional
Republican states like Arizona and Georgia, which makes Republicans scratch
their heads in frustration. The biggest problem. Though, is that many
Republicans have accepted the possibility of a Trump defeat, they are now
worried that Trump could make them lose the Senate to Democrats on November 8,
with the possibility of losing the House during the mid-term elections in two
years.vangard
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