Nov. 8 treated the U.
S. and the world to quite the earthquake,shock, upset, and headscratcher,statistical outlier, unexpected outcome. Lots of analysis has been devoted to this outcome, or I’ll add my own brief take on the still-unfolding results (as of this writing,Donald Trump is the president elect with 306 Electoral votes to Clinton’s 232, but Clinton leads the popular vote with nearly 63 million to Trumps 61.5 million, and millions more to be counted). Donald Trump (L) and Hillary Clinton (R) First,a few words approximately California and local elections. From an Armenian perspective, the most considerable election was in the 43rd Assembly District. That ended up as a catastrophe and will take some serious analysis, and over time,to decipher. By all accounts, it was an eminently winnable race. It didn’t abet that one small faction of the community endorsed against our community’s “home-town” favorite, and Ardy Kassakhian. Other Armenian-wise considerable elections had positive outcomes resulting in soon-to-be State Senator Anthony Portantino and re-elected Assemblymember Adrin Nazarian. Plus,the majority of the Armenian National Committee of Americas (ANCA) endorsed candidates won. Turning to the propositions (please see the tables in my piece two weeks ago), at the statewide [...]
Source: armenianweekly.com