{"id":13710,"date":"2016-11-09T09:21:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T14:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=13710"},"modified":"2016-11-09T09:21:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T14:21:23","slug":"election-coda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=13710","title":{"rendered":"Election coda"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not much surprises me anymore, but Donald Trump<\/a> pulling off a win<\/a> last night did.\u00a0 Hillary<\/a> beat him in the popular vote, but lost the electoral college.<\/p>\n

On the positive side, it is immensely entertaining to see her lifelong dream go down in flames<\/a> and the reaction from her supporters is priceless<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On the negative side Trump didn’t run on limiting\/reducing government like Reagan<\/a>. He ran on running government “better”. Trump supporters are going to find out those aren’t the same thing.<\/p>\n

Libertarians were winners with Gary Johnson getting ~3.8 million votes<\/a>. So were the NRA<\/a> who put $20+ million into the campaign as Chuck Todd<\/a> notes:<\/p>\n