An editorial from the ECM Editorial Board:
Our recent election will undoubtedly go down as one of the most bizarre presidential contests in our nation’s history.broadstreet.zone(48036);
Election Day was a surprising climax to a contest that wound a tortuous course over the past 20 months. It was the biggest upset in a presidential contest in seven decades.
While former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had been virtually anointed by party leaders as the Democratic “Presidential nominee in waiting” long before her announcement in April of 2015, few considered Donald Trump to be a front runner among the 17 Republican presidential candidates when he became a candidate in June of 2015.
When Republicans and Democrats attended their respective precinct caucuses in Minnesota on March 1 of this year they voted for their presidential choice. Donald Trump finished a distant third behind Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz among Republicans. In what likely was a warning of
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