*To those African-Americans who criticized the Clinton campaign for not reaching out more aggressively and to those reluctant millennials who didn’t see enough authenticity in the “lesser of two evils”: Grow up. It’s about doing your homework so you fully understand what’s at stake–economically, societally and geopolitically–for your country. That’s why you turn out even if the outreach were short-armed. Even if neither candidate viscerally connected.
And don’t ever again equate Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Clinton had off-putting baggage; Trump had his own carousel. This wasn’t Benito Mussolini vs. Al Capone. It wasn’t Joe Stalin vs. Joe Mengele. It was America or Amerika.
* Isn’t “Souls to the polls,” often an effective get-out-the-vote tactic, also a separation-of-church-and-state loophole?
* A couple of days before the election, the union representing the state’s professional firefighters withdrew its endorsement of the utility-backed Trojan Horse that was Amendment 1. The Florida Professional Firefighters demanded that TV ads featuring firefighters be pulled.
One obvious question: It took this long–after half the state had already voted–to determine that the blatantly misleading, special-interest amendment was something the FPF couldn’t endorse?