Why Trump won

Donald Trump is set to become the 45th President of the United States. And the fact of the matter is that most of the mainstream media in the United States did not see this coming. They all expected Hillary Clinton to win; they backed her all the way; and they expected her to win big time. Even Indian analysts who for some funny reason had been following the American elections very closely expected Clinton to win. In fact, one Indian economist who likes dabbling in predicting elections even wrote a couple of columns predicting Clinton's win. He and many others have now ended up with eggs on their faces. Their only consolation is that Clinton won a greater share of the popular vote, but Trump won the electoral-college vote, which decides the American presidential elections. It is expected that Trump will get 1.2 per cent fewer votes than Clinton. One reason now being offered for the media being way off the mark is that most mainstream media in the United States is based out of the East Coast and given that, they were out of touch with what middle-class and rural America was thinking. This is a tad like India, where the nation

This article was originally published on January 07, 2017.