The more I think about it, Uncle Ken might be right about how Trump got elected. The crossover vote might have helped him in the primary, but that wouldn't have done him any good in the general election. I think what put him over the top then was the protest vote. Lots of times people don't vote for a candidate, they vote against the status quo. As it was in the days of George Wallace, there were people who believed the country had gone too far in one direction, so they voted for someone who promised to lead it the opposite way. It's a shame that they couldn't find a better person than Trump to be their standard bearer, but they may have felt he was the only one willing and able to do so. The Republicans ran moderate candidates for president two elections in a row, and they lost both times.
I was considering a protest vote for Trump myself until Uncle Ken pointed out that, in the unlikely event that Trump actually won, I would be kicking myself in the ass for the next four years. I ended up voting Libertarian, considering it a protest vote against both Trump and Hillary, so I got two protest votes for the price or one. Some people have long believed that there should be a way to vote for "none of the above", well this is it.
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