Hey everybody. Ding dong. Which old witch Donald Trump. We've got an optimistic one today,

you know, for change. Because my first post-election night podcast, and how could you

come away from the last few days without thinking, wow, wow, whoa, that was a roller

close. That was disturbing. And one thing that was disturbing, of course, is my faith that I've always had in American polling.

Of course, we have a problem sometimes in our nation, finding something to put our faith in.

And for the longest time now, it's been especially during periods leading up to an election,

it seems like the one thing

that we Americans really can place a lot of faith in, our hopes and dreams for ourselves and

our families and our futures.

Polling and polling aggregators who crunch the polling numbers, the Nate Silverers of this world,

because that's what we always look to.

Polls are numbers. There's something you can wrap your head around to help you understand where

Americans stand, who we are, what we know, what we believe. And, okay, let's face it. Polsters missed it four years ago. What they

hadn't seen is that Americans had become fed up with the elites in this country and that

Hillary Clinton had come to represent the elites, fairly or not. The narrative was that Hillary went to Walsley and Yale Law, married a classmate from Yale, and joined an elite law firm in Arkansas because that's where Bill was from, and that she and Bill had made all those elite contacts at Yale and at law and Bill at Oxford. And they were just ambitious and

plotted together to become president and first lady and got all high and mighty and did really

well for themselves and their friends who were also educated elites, the meritocracy. And then after

leaving office for a while, they formed this foundation

that got its all money from famous wealthy elites and the Sultan of Brunei and Wall Street

types who all knew the system and got rich and gave some of their spoils to the Clintons,

who, you know, he did some good things, like save, you know, millions of lives in Africa,

but not like the Trump Foundation, which had just was a really, you know, just like a family,

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