Here’s a first. I’m writing a blog post about something as it happens. And this time it’s the 2016 presidential election. It’s 10:02 pm and here’s where things stand:Trump won Florida and Ohio. He’s ahead in Michigan and Wisconsin. And New Hampshire. And North Carolina.Clinton won Virginia. Narrowly.If things stand as they are now, we’ll have President Trump. What. The. Fuck.Luckily, I don’t think things will remain as they are. Lots of votes out in Madison and Detroit, so Clinton will win Wisconsin and Michigan. If she can pickup Nevada or New Hampshire, she wins. She doesn’t even need Florida, Ohio, or North Carolina.That makes me feel better.Right now Trump has just under 41 million votes and Clinton has just under 39 million votes.Are you kidding me?I live in a country where at least 41 million people look at this guy and think, “Yeah, I want him to be my president.” How is that even possible?Okay, a few observations as I frantically refresh cnn.com to get updated numbers on Michigan and Wisconsin.First, I voted for Hillary, but she had to be the worst possible candidate Democrats could have put up against Trump. How is she not trouncing him? How on earth is she not getting 60% of the vote? I’m dumbfounded.Some of it is because she’s a woman. A sizable portion of this country will never vote for a woman for president. Just like a sizeable portion of this country will never vote for a person of color as president. It’s just the way things are, despite the idiocy of it.However, I think Clinton was the worst possible choice because she so divisive. People have opinions about her. She’s been around so long, she’s been so involved for so long, has such a record that she’s easy to attack.And she’s made mistakes. The e-mail server was a stupid decision that someone on her staff should have talked her out of right away. Her first inclination is always secrecy—which I somewhat understand, due to her two decades of fighting attacks from her political rivals—but secrecy gives people a reason to question what you’re hiding. And people assume things are more nefarious than they are.It’s odd to say a candidate had too much experience, but in her case I think she had too much experience, and, hence, too long of a record, so it was easy for people to vote against her. She wasn’t just running against people who oppose her in 2016, she was running against people who opposed her 1992, 1996, 2000, 2006, 2008.Someone more charismatic, younger, and with less of a record might have done better and made this the blowout it should have been.Trump has to be kicking himself for pulling out of Virginia. He abandoned the state a couple of weeks ago. Pulled his entire operation, all but conceding it to Clinton. He narrowly lost. Had he stayed there, he might have won. And if this goes how I think it will go, then winning in Virginia would have been the difference between a win and a loss for him.Take no states for granted. Democrats would have never guessed that they might lose Michigan or Wisconsin. They were banking on a win in North Carolina and lost. They barely won in Virginia, a state that Obama won the past two elections. No voter should ever assume that their vote doesn’t matter. Trump won Indiana easily, and I figured he would, but I still went and voted for Clinton this morning. Every vote must be fought for. Take nothing for granted.You know, if you ever decide to run for President someday.And the last lesson is by far the most important one. Donald Trump received at least 41 million votes. That means a lot of people in this country have concerns they feel are best addressed by an egotistical, unstable, sex offender lunatic.But regardless of who they think is best to address their concerns, they have concerns. We cannot ignore those people. Even if Clinton wins, which I think she will—narrowly—she, and the House and Senate, and every American citizen must acknowledge the concerns of Trump voters and figure out how to improve things.Make America Great Again is the worst fucking slogan in the world. Just like everything else with this backward-looking, misogynistic, racist, elitist, mentally deficient psychopath, it shows complete disregard for nuance and the complexity of the problems the world faces.We’ve got problems. Tens of millions of Trump supporters have made that clear. Unfortunately, the man they voted for is not the man to solve those problems.Let’s see what happens.Click here to receive an e-mail each time I write a new post! Guaranteed spam-free, unsubscribe any time IF YOU LIKED THIS POST I BET YOU'LL ALSO LIKE: We Can Do Better Than Donald Trump, Can't We?PREVIOUS POST: Why I Changed My Mind And Plan to Vote for Donald Trump