Kellyanne Conway describes what she did after a meeting in August at a point when Trump was in desperate need of a campaign manager. The story continues:

It was then that Trump offered her the job.

Conway accepted, as long as another person was in the C-Suite, a term derived from the use of the letter C in most high-level positions such as chief or chair. That other person was Steve Bannon, former Goldman Sachs executive, U.S. Navy officer, and publisher of Breitbart News, a right-wing news organization.

Conway then gave Trump her thoughts about how he could win, and about the issues and messaging it would require.

“He already knew that. His instincts are excellent,” she says. “He had already built a movement, but he needed to have some people around him who create the right environment.

“So how did we leverage that into a campaign strategy? And, conversely, as I said to him on that first day, ‘Let’s see who Hillary Clinton is not, nor ever can be, and let’s try to do it and be it.’ ”

Conway and Bannon saw Clinton as someone who lacked an uplifting message and couldn’t break above 44 to 47 percent in polls. They also felt she would have a devil of a time knitting together the Obama coalition.

Meanwhile, Conway says she reduced the hassle and background noise for Trump, hoping to create an atmosphere in which he could flourish. “And I tried to take account of his gifts.”

Trump’s rallies soon became speeches, the kind of events where he began to use a teleprompter and to talk about policy. He started to offer a bullet-point outline of something that people could actually envision. He was still “able to add a great deal of personal flair and humor and off-the-cuff remarks at the rallies,” Conway says, “And people loved that.”

This is how history is made in those normally hidden recesses of the decision-making process. There was nothing inevitable about any of it. But that is merely politics. There is also this:

Her faith — she is a devout Catholic— has helped keep everything in perspective.

“Faith plays a minute by minute part of my life. It is constant,” she says.

“This,” she says, pointing to everything that is going on around Trump Tower, “is consequential, this is exciting and historic in its own way, but it is nothing compared to the universe in which we live, the God that I worship, and the totality of our lives.

“I do believe that God placed me in this position at this time to do my small part to create an environment to allow Mr. Trump to flourish and to help to create a campaign structure with our fabulous team.”

It almost makes you think a return to sanity is possible.

A disaster in statistics – sent to me without a source so take it for what it’s worth. If accurate, a disgrace in almost every respect.

California

CA stats are:

Hispanic………… 14,990,000 million
Caucasian……….14,920,000
Asian……………… 5,736.098
Black …………….. 2,552,858
Am Indian………….. 648,172

Note, Hispanics outnumber Caucasians. But, another interesting statistic is this:

34% of the nations 67,980,000 million people who receive welfare live in California, and California has only 12% of the entire U.S. population [Fed stats].

This means:

23,113,200 million welfare recipients live in California.
39,487,345 million people total live in California. [more welfare recipients than workers]

According to your stats, Clinton beat Trump in CA by 2,708,893, so you could say she didn’t do that well in California!

We hear a cacophony of blaring and bleating from the media and the Hillary gaggle that she won the popular vote and therefore she should be president. 65,124,828 to 62,652,263 or 48.2% to 46.3% with the remaining 5.5% going to the other candidates.

But here are the facts:

Trump led in the total popular vote for all states……. except California.

Hillary won California 5,860,714 to Trump’s 3,151,821. 61.6% to 33.1% exclusive of the other candidates. [a margin of 2,708,893]

Thus, California gave Hillary the popular vote for all states as claimed by the Democrats and their media stooges.

But, deduct her California vote from her national vote, leaving her with 59,264,114, and deduct Trump’s California vote from his national total,leaving him with 59,500,442.

So, in effect, Hillary was elected president of California and Trump was elected president of the rest of the country.

This exemplifies the wisdom of the Electoral College, to prevent the vote of any one populace state from overriding the vote of the others. Trump’s Campaign Manager, Kellyanne Conway, whose expertise is polling, saw this early on and devised her strategy of “6 pathways to the White House”. This meant ignoring California, with its huge Democrat majority, and going after the states that would give him the necessary Electoral votes to win, FL, NC, MI, PA, OH, and WI. It worked and our country Will Be Secure – after January 20, 2017.

One other tidbit: California is one of 11 “welfare states” where there are more people living off the government dole than there are working for a living. A perfect example of those who vote for a living. Since they have some time on their hands they are the ones who have time to “protest,” (in other words riot)!

They also have an incentive to continue to vote for a living. A micro image of what is wrong with the welfare state.

The last hurdle has been cleared with Donald Trump having received the 270 electoral votes that will make him the 45th president. It ought to have been a mere formality, but not only were there many in the Democrat rabble who thought that the Electoral College might be turned, no one at the top of the Democrat establishment would say that the vote had been determined, and that Trump was legitimately the president-elect. This will be part of the Democrat drumbeat for the next four (or even eight) years, as they will insist that the Russians did it and Hillary received more votes. The very clever map above shows just what it means that Hillary received more votes. California, a bit of the north-east and a few scattered islands elsewhere. The rest of the country voted Trump. It is exactly this kind of distorted voting pattern that the electoral college was designed to overcome. Here is Bill Clinton discussing the election, just yesterday, after all the voting was done:

On the question of Russian cyberattacks damaging the candidacy of his wife, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, the former president said “you would need to have a single-digit IQ not to recognize what was going on.”

I think it requires a single-digit IQ to have voted for Hillary, but honest people might differ on this one. But then he goes on with what I think is true:

He blamed FBI Director James Comey for her loss, telling those gathered around him that he had “cost her the election” by announcing with less than two weeks to go before the election that the bureau was examining fresh evidence related to her use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state.

This is the 650,000 emails in Anthony Weiner’s laptop that were suddenly discovered which no one has a plausible reason to explain how they got there. I agree with Bill that that is what turned the tide. I therefore also need a plausible reason to explain why Comey opened this issue up just when he did since he had already closed the email question down a couple of weeks before. I think still that it was because Obama was trying to engineer a Hillary win, an early need to resign and a Tim Kaine presidency, but we will never know. It does explain things to me in a way that nothing else does.

Instead it is President Donald Trump. Now it will be four years of relentless media slanging, where there is continuous and ongoing effort to find anti-Trump narratives at every turn. The media are almost entirely of the left, and we have seen how it works. What remains remarkable is that even though everyone says the media are on the far left, they nevertheless can create issues and then run with them. The fake news and Russian cyberattack stories are just inventions for which evidence is entirely lacking.

But Trump will be president. He will change the direction of American economic and foreign policy, and he will get to choose at least one justice for the Supreme Court and possibly as many as three. He will also build the wall. Is it too late? We shall see.

Extremely clever. Sadly, though, fewer than half the population would understand the reference.