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CLINTON FAILS TO DELIVER Popular Vote: Clinton 59,796,267 : Trump 59,589,809 Electoral College Votes: Clinton 228 : Trump 279
By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor female president. She seems to have won a plurality of the popular vote, leading by more than 200,000 votes at press time. But Clinton lost by a total margin of 111,000 votes in three states where Democrats have won for decades: Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, giving Donald Trump the Electoral College votes he needed for an unexpected victory. He performed significantly better than pre-election polls had predicted. Third-party candidates took more than the margin of victory in all three states. The results sent shockwaves around the world, with stocks plummeting and people pouring out their thoughts online. “The unthinkable happened before, to my family in WWII,” Star Trek star and social activist George Takei tweeted. “We got thru it. We held each other close. We kept our dignity and held to our ideals.” “When a man says he will forcefully deport 12 million immigrants in 2 years don’t tell me we don’t need an organized resistance,” Black Lives [See Clinton, page 7]
Few Surprises on an Otherwise Sad Election Night
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In 1872, Victoria Woodhull became the first woman to run for president of the United States. She was a candidate for the Equal Rights Party, campaigning on a multi-front progressive platform of women’s suffrage, regulation of monopolies, nationalization of railroads, an eight-hour workday, direct taxation, abolition of the death penalty and welfare for the poor. In 1972, Shirley Chisholm—the first AfricanAmerican woman to serve in Congress—became the first woman to run for president in the Democratic Party primary. Her platform was left of George McGovern’s. This year, 144 years after Woodhull, Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first woman to run for president as the nominee of a major party. Running on much more conventional — if still progressive — political positions, but still facing spectacular levels of visceral hostility, she was poised to become America’s first
By Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor
late father, Kenneth Hahn. His service on that body has elevated him to a status that approaches political legend. Hahn captured 56 percent of the vote to defeat Steve Napolitano, the protégé and chief of staff of four-term Supervisor Don Knabe, by an unsurprisingly large margin of 50,000 votes. Next door to Hahn’s party, similar festivities were being planned by supporters of Isadore Hall’s campaign for the 44th Congressional District seat that Hahn vacated. By the end of
November 10 - 23, 2016
LA County Supervisor-elect Janice Hahn celebrates with supporters Nov. 8 at Ports O’Call Restaurant in San Pedro. Photo by Phillip Cooke.
Rep. Janice Hahn’s election night party was supposed to begin at 9 p.m. But from the moment results started to roll in just after 8 p.m., it became increasingly clear that Donald J. Trump was far exceeding expectations and party time was repeatedly pushed back. It was after 10:30 p.m. when the celebrating finally began. For Hahn, election night represented the completion of a journey to what seems to have been her political destiny. In winning the District 4 seat on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, she walked in the footsteps of her
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