BrandNewGuy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Well, a good friend of mine in California (who > voted for Clinton) said that on the stump Trump > banged on and on about the economy, wages, > manufacturing, infrastructure, tariffs and free > trade all the time ? far, far more than he did > about Mexicans and Muslims. And lots of those > speeches were shown live on TV (as indeed were > Hillary's), so I suspect many Americans got a > different perspective from those of us in this > country who saw very little of that. > > Not that I think his 'solutions' make much > sense... A friend of mine is visiting his brother and family in California. They all voted Democrat but his brother said there's a general feeling in the country that Obama's presidency hasn't been a success*, that the general population is worse off and struggling to make ends meet, so in the end they voted for change rather than more of the same, which is all that Clinton offered. Which kinda reminds me of that line which I think one of Blll Clinton's aides came up with....It's the economy, stupid *It should be said that Obama has had his hands tied with a Republican majority in the Senate/Congress, so he was never going to totally deliver what he wanted to...