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U.S. natural gas futures prices have slumped this year amid a supply glut, and are now averaging about $2.54 per million British thermal units. If it finishes the year at that level, it’ll be the lowest average price since 1999. …Chevron held more than 750,000 net acres in the Marcellus and Utica shale formations, which stretch from West Virginia to Pennsylvania and Ohio, according to a 2017 fact sheet on its website.Chevron to Take $11 Billion Writedown Amid Weak Gas PricesFirst off, I don’t know any of Chevron’s specifics. But I can read betwixt the lines.The U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) takes a dim view of public companies who mislead investors by carrying non-performing investments on their balance sheets under the heading “Assets”.I don’t know lease costs in the Appalachian Basin, but even if it’s $1,000 per acre, that’s $750 million in acreage costs alone. (Probably a multiple of that — let’s say $5,000 per acre on average, that’s $4 B just in lease costs.)Chevron’s wells probably cost $15 million each to drill and frack and $5 million to equip (Cadillac all the way, baby!). They got into it thinking they’d ultimately recover, say, 25 billion cubic feet per well: At $4.00 per million BTU, that’s gross revenue of $100 million per well! Not bad!Except out of gross revenue, you’ve got to cover landowner royalties (20% of gross?), operating expenses, transportation, PA state taxes, local taxes, etc.Still and all, enough left over to realize a nice return of maybe 15% after tax. Again, not bad. So you drill a few hundred wells. 500 x $20 million = $10 billion.Except when the wells perform below expectations, and prove early on that they’re only going to make half your pre-drill expected reserves.Except when there’s a surplus of gas on the market, driving prices down closer to $2.00 per million BTU.Suddenly, the wells are struggling to get your money back. They still cost $20 million but generate $25 million gross revenue, $15 million after royalties, taxes, and expenses.Your losing $5 million on each well you drill, not including the cost of the acreage.You, as a Chevron manager, can’t recommend the company keep investing in a clearly losing venture. Its value is clearly less than the $14 B you’ve invested. Your engineers estimate that the value of the reserves is $3 B.And that’s how you write down $11 billion in gas assets.

The Oyster Wars: One of the longest “wars” fought on US soil was the Oyster Wars. It was a series of confrontations between “oyster pirates” and law enforcement in the Chesapeake Bay Area (Maryland and Virginia). Following the American Civil War, oysters became a popular national delicacy, and so many people wanted in on the oyster business, leading to encroachment by oyster poachers and illegal fishermen. The conflicts lasted from ~1865 to 1959 and numerous fishermen and police died.When people think of earthquakes in the US, San Francisco and the West Coast comes to mind. However, one of the largest earthquakes in US History occurred in 1811–1812 near New Madrid, Missouri. Three earthquakes (all between magnitudes 7.4–8.0) shook the Mississippi river settlement. The waves were estimated to have been felt strongly over roughly 130,000 square kilometers (50,000 sq mi), and moderately across nearly 3 million square kilometers (1 million square miles). This is twice as large as the zone felt by the infamous 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.In 1837, John Wilson, the speaker of the Arkansas House of Representatives and president of the Arkansas Real Estate Bank, got into a fight with state representative J. J. Anthony when the representative argued that the bank president had to set the bounties for criminals who killed wolves. Insulted by what he saw as beneath him, Wilson drew a large knife and attacked Anthony. Although Anthony drew out a knife of his own, he was stabbed and killed on the floor of the chamber. Although Wilson was expelled from his office, he was later acquitted for the murder.In the state of Illinois, a grand total of six governors were tried for corruption charges. Four of them were sentenced to prison. Rod Blagojevich, governor from 2003 to 2009, was sentenced to jail for 14 years in 2011, at the same time his predecessor, George Ryan (1999–2003), was still serving time for his own time (Ryan was released in 2013).President Nixon may have been the first president to resign from office, but his vice president, Spiro Agnew, was the second vice president in US history to resign, and the first VP to resign in disgrace (John C Calhoun resigned in 1832 against Andrew Jackson over the nullification crisis). Agnew resigned in 1973 amidst corruption charges during his time as governor of Maryland and he pled no contest to a felony charge of tax evasion. Nixon had hoped Agnew’s resignation would deflect some heat over Watergate. It didn’t, and Nixon resigned a year after.The Battle of Hampton Roads during the American Civil War in 1862 marked the first time in history where two ironclad warships met in battle, between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia (formerly the USS Merrimack). The battle was inconclusive, as neither ship was able to damage each other.Marion Barry became one of the first prominent civil rights activists to become mayor of a major US city (Washington DC), in 1978. However, in 1990, he was arrested in a sting operation for crack cocaine use and possession. He was visiting his ex-girlfriend, who was an FBI informant, when he was busted. He famously remarked “b*tch set me up” on video during the arrest.The Attica Prison riot in upstate NY was one of the most infamous prison riots in US history. In 1971, 1,000 inmates rose up and took the correctional officers and civilian staff hostage. By the time state police took back the prison, 10 officers/civilians and 33 prisoners had been killed.Lake Compounce, which opened in 1846, is the oldest continuously-operating amusement park in the United States, and originated when its founder Gad Norton invited a scientist to perform an experiment with explosives. This attracted a crowd and Norton used the opportunity to open an amusement park at the site.The Germans attempted to create a colony within the boundaries of Texas in 1842. It failed miserably.

This is going to be difficult for some Democrats to read, so I’m going to try to keep my commentary to a minimum and use quotes from Democrats wherever I can to make this less painful.A couple of decades of elitism-Van Jones: ‘Obnoxious elitism has found a home’ in Democratic Party“It feels nearly impossible to have a productive conversation with ‘the other side,’ ” Mr. Jones said, CNN reported. “We are still acting like one side is always right and one side is always wrong.”Biden rips Democrats' 'elitism,' faults party for failing to reach working class“I believe that we were not letting an awful lot of people — high school-educated, mostly Caucasian, but also people of color — know that we understood their problems,” he reportedly said.”Democrats — the party of the professional class? - The Boston Globe“I never worried about West Virginia,’’ said Dukakis. “It is working-class America, but now we’ve just kind of basically said: Well, it’s a red state.’’“I’ve been in groups of workers, who used to be so closely aligned with the Democrats, where I’m more welcome than a Democrat would be,” said Senator Rob Portman, a Republican running for reelection in the swing state of Ohio. “The Democrats have become a little more elitist, less in touch with the life experiences of middle-class Americans, and more attuned to the college-educated, urban-dwelling segment.”Portman is hardly impartial. But is he wrong?Yolie Capin blasts Democratic Party as elitist in wake of Trump victory - SaintPetersBlog“I know people who voted for Trump. (Some of them) were Ph.D.’s, OK?” Capin says. “It’s mind boggling. Let them keep saying it’s the ‘yahoos and the hillbillies.’ Let them keep doing that,” she says of what she calls the elitism of the Democratic Party leadership. “That’s exactly what the people felt, (that) you feel that you’re more intelligent, more informed. But you don’t listen.”Corruption is only relevant when the other side does it-Yolie Capin blasts Democratic Party as elitist in wake of Trump victory - SaintPetersBlog“So then we fast forward to 2016 and the Democratic establishment rigs the convention and the thing is, they got caught and the sad, sad part is that everybody was OK with it!” Capin said, referring to the thousands of leaked WikiLeaks emails that showed DNC disdain toward Bernie Sanders and support for Clinton long before any votes were cast.Dear Democrats, Read This If You Do Not Understand Why Trump WonBy not listening to your fellow Americans, and accusing them of being “conspiracy theorists” and trusting the corporate media, you ignored reality. By only following other liberals on social media, and only reading liberal or corporate news, once again ignoring reality. When Hillary Clinton was caught rigging the primary against Bernie Sanders, and Democrats nominated her anyway they ignored reality……I took it upon myself to understand Trump, and his supporters. What I found was millions of great Americans who had been disenfranchised, normal people like you and I, who did not recover from the Great Recession. They’re pissed off about Obama Care, endless wars, trade deals that have killed jobs, higher taxes, a rigged economy–and, they are not wrong……Had Democrats taken the concerns of average American seriously, especially the concerns of Millennials, they would have quickly realized Hillary Clinton was not the right nominee for the Democratic party in 2016.Democrat Actually Admits A Crime Was Committed With Hillary Clinton’s E-Mail ScandalYesterday Comey testified before Congress again and dropped a bombshell. The FBI found classified material on Anthony Weiner’s lap top that were forwarded to him from his wife Huma Abedin, who is Hillary’s right-hand girl. To recap: Hillary mishandled classified information on her private e-mail server by sending it to Abedin, who mishandled it some more by sending it to her pervert husband. Anthony Weiner isn’t even allowed within 500 feet of school so he definitely doesn’t have top security clearance……Morning Joe’s Willie Geist asked Senator Blumenthal if he thought Abedin had committed a crime.“If there was classified information and it was improperly passed to a person unauthorized to receive it. Yes, it’s a crime. Without knowing what the intentions were and so forth, there is potentially a prosecutable crime,” said Blumenthal.UPDATE: President Obama’s Own Defense Deputy Admits Obama White House Spied on Candidate/President-Elect Trump…“More than a half-dozen current and former officials described various aspects of the effort to preserve and distribute the intelligence, and some said they were speaking to draw attention to the material and ensure proper investigation by Congress. All spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were discussing classified information, nearly all of which remains secret.” (link)Democrat Congressman Admits ‘Obama Wiretapped Everyone, Even Me’“I can vouch for the fact that extracurricular surveillance does occur, whether or not it is officially approved,” Kucinich said.Former president Obama was a serial wiretapper, using any excuse to listen in to his rivals private conversations. He developed such a taste for it that he even tapped the phones of his Democratic Party comrades.“I was wiretapped in 2011 after taking a phone call in my congressional office after taking a call from a foreign leader,” Kucinich continued. “The fact is that if a member of Congress can have a phone call intercepted, there is no one safe. It is plausible that a presidential candidate could have had his phone calls tapped.“Kucinich also slammed the Obama administration for being “out of control with this surveillance stuff.““The larger question is, what about the rights of Americans to privacy? We have five constitutional amendments that are meant to protect our privacy. Now we learn from WikiLeaks that things like an iPhone can be used to get people’s conversations, they use televisions…“Let’s demonize everyone else-The party who cried racistHillary Clinton's infamous "basket of deplorables" speech labeled half of Trump's supporters — more than 30 million Americans — as "irredeemable" racists.The Democrats' destructive politics of righteousnessMcGovern naively took for granted the traditional party loyalty of union leaders and the white working class. But these pillars of the New Deal collation recognized that McGovern's creation of a new "coalition of conscience" built around opposition to the war, identity politics and a redistribution of wealth excluded some of their own conscientiously held moral convictions. McGovern went on to lose every state but Massachusetts and the District of Columbia — and with them the party allegiance of blue-collar workers, union leaders and — what often amounted to the same voters — conservative Roman Catholics.Jimmy Carter was not a member of McGovern's coalition of conscience: He had his own powerful sense of moral righteousness, one he derived from his Southern Baptist heritage of personal rectitude rather than McGovern's secularized Methodist heritage of moral uplift and social reconstruction. There was much in that mix that was admirably righteous, especially the instinct to protect racial and sexual minorities from social oppression. The problem is that pursuing righteousness by expanding individual rights at the expense of communal values often creates greater social conflict. As sociologist Robert Bellah argued in 1991, "rights language itself offers no way to evaluate competing claims." One side wins, the other loses.Gloria Steinem and Madeleine Albright Rebuke Young Women Backing Bernie Sanders“We can tell our story of how we climbed the ladder, and a lot of you younger women think it’s done,” Ms. Albright said of the broader fight for women’s equality. “It’s not done. There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other!”……“When you’re young, you’re thinking: ‘Where are the boys? The boys are with Bernie,’ ” Ms. Steinem said.Realizing that this was potentially offensive, Mr. Maher recoiled. “Oh. Now if I said that, ‘They’re for Bernie because that’s where the boys are,’ you’d swat me.”Jon Stewart: "Hypocrisy" For Left To Think Everybody Who Voted For Trump Is A RacistHacked Audio: Clinton Calls Bernie Fans Frustrated Basement-Dwellers“They’re children of the Great Recession,” Clinton said of Bernie fans. “And they are living in their parents’ basement. They feel they got their education, and the jobs that are available to them are not at all what they envisioned for themselves.”The leaked recording discloses Clinton’s comments at a Virginia fundraiser hosted by former U.S. ambassador Beatrice Welters in February, reports the Washington Free BeaconJeff Klein Calls Criticism Of New Breakaway Democrats 'Racist' & 'Obnoxious'“The reality is we have a group of rogue Democrats who are empowering Trump Republicans, and blocking me from becoming the first woman and first African-American woman Senate President or co-President,” Stewart-Cousins told the paper, while also calling the allegations of racism "dangerous and offensive."This isn't the first time that charges of racism have been levied in defense of the IDC. When Marisol Alcantara came under fire after she won a primary while pledging to conference with the IDC, consultant Lis Smith tweeted that her critics were "white progressives" trying to silence "new Americans." Alcantara herself suggested to the Village Voice that non-white politicians were more likely than their white colleagues to be "demonized" and accused of looking out for themselves when they "make decisions based on helping their constituents."In addition, Jose Peralta's spokesman Juan Soto said that chatter about a primary challenger for Peralta was racially charged. "In Queens, when it comes to Latinos, this is the type of sugar cane plantation style politics that the Queens political machine will resort to keep dissent quiet," he told Politico.Sheila Jackson Lee - Discover the NetworksDuring a 1997 visit to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, Jackson Lee, who was then serving on the House Science Committee and on the Subcommittee that oversees U.S. space policy, asked a guide whether the Mars Pathfinder would be able to show an image of “the flag the astronauts planted there before.” When it was subsequently pointed out that the flag to which she was referring was in fact the one that Neil Armstrong had planted on the Moon—not Mars—in 1969, Jackson Lee complained that she was being mocked by bigots. “You thought you could have fun with a black woman member of the Science Committee,” her then-chief-of-staff wroteangrily in a letter to the editor.In 2005 she expressed her objection to the World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) practice of assigning “lily white” names to hurricanes—i.e., names normally associated with Caucasians. “All racial groups should be represented,” the congresswoman told The Hill Magazine, in hopes that the WMO in the future “would try to be inclusive of African American names.” She suggested such names as “Keisha, Jamal and Deshawn.”In 2011 Jackson Lee went to the House floor to complain about a Pepsi Max commercial that had aired during that year's Super Bowl telecast. In the ad, a black woman was shown throwing her soda can at her boyfriend or husband for glancing at an attractive white female jogger; when he ducked, the can struck the jogger, and the couple then scurried away. “It was not humorous,” the congresswoman shouted. “It was demeaning—an African-American woman throwing something at an African-American male and winding up hitting a Caucasian woman.”Absolute Power corrupts absolutely-Democrats ‘Shame’ Voters With MailersDemocratic Party postcards and letters sent to more than 800,000 New Yorkers this week gave them grades based on how often they had voted and told them their voting records in 2014 would be watched.Political observers, both partisan and not, said the mailers were akin to a pre-Halloween scare.Ed Klein - Democrats and the Abuse of Presidential PowerA tip of the hat to Jeff Kisseloff of The Nation, who reminds us that Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first president to order J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the FBI, to use the relatively new investigate tool of wiretapping against his political opponents.According to Today in Civil Liberties History, Harry S. Truman approved a memo from his attorney general that authorized FBI wiretapping of political dissidents……Before Barack Obama and his administration spied on Trump, they rifled through the emails and phone records of Fox reporter James Rosen, claimed executive privilege during the Fast and Furious scandal, and used the IRS to target conservative groups and deny them tax-exempt status.Democrats' shameful double standard on abuse of power…A similar dynamic is at work in New York City, where a new municipal ID program for undocumented immigrants was designed by City Council Democrats with a provision to delete ID holders' data in the event of a Republican presidential victory in 2016."In case a Tea Party Republican comes into [the White House] and says, 'We want all of the data from all of the municipal ID programs in the country,' we're going to take the data," explained City Councilman Carlos Menchaca (D-Brooklyn). "That allows us to prepare for any new leadership."……In a 2008 speech now frequently cited by his critics, President Obama seemed aware of the hazard in amassing power in one branch of government. "I take the Constitution very seriously," he said. "The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all. And that's what I intend to reverse when I'm president of the United States of America."Six years in, it's clear that there will be no such reversal.Democrats Defend an Indefensible Abuse of Executive Power“Democrats are defending the indefensible. The Constitution clearly delineates the powers of each branch of the federal government. Congress is given sole authority to make law, and the president is given the responsibility of enforcing it. There is no special clause in the Constitution that gives the president power to enact his agenda when Congress disagrees with him.”Drone strikes under Obama killed up to 117 civilians, intelligence report claims…Rights groups have criticized the Obama administration’s estimates of civilian casualties caused by counter-terror actions.Human rights organization Reprieve said in July that the U.S. government has misled the public on its drone programme and “shifted the goalposts on what counts as a civilian to such an extent that any estimate may be far removed from reality.”"In U.S. drone operations, reports suggest all 'military aged males' and potentially even women and children are considered 'enemies killed in action' unless they can 'posthumously' and 'conclusively' prove their innocence," it added.America dropped 26,171 bombs in 2016. What a bloody end to Obama's reign | Medea BenjaminWhile candidate Obama came to office pledging to end George W Bush’s wars, he leaves office having been at war longer than any president in US history. He is also the only president to serve two complete terms with the nation at war……President Obama has claimed that his overseas military adventures are legal under the 2001 and 2003 authorizations for the use of military force passed by Congress to go after al-Qaida. But today’s wars have little or nothing to do with those who attacked the United States on September 11, 2001.The twisted legal architecture the Obama administration has constructed to justify its interventions, especially extrajudicial drone killings with no geographic restrictions, will now be transferred into the erratic hands of Donald Trump.What does the administration have to show for eight years of fighting on so many fronts? Terrorism has spread, no wars have been “won” and the Middle East is consumed by more chaos and divisions than when candidate Barack Obama declared his opposition to the invasion of Iraq.While the switch from US troops on the ground to airstrikes and special forces has saved US lives, untold numbers of foreign lives have been snuffed out. We have no idea how many civilians have been killed in the massive bombings in Iraq and Syria, where the US military is often pursuing Isis in the middle of urban neighborhoods. We only sporadically hear about civilian killings in Afghanistan, such as the tragic bombing of the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz that left 42 dead and 37 wounded.Ask James Carville It’s still “the economy stupid.”Democrats turn to lies to avoid the economyBuried under fake Democratic outrages about Mr. Trump is news like this from the past few days:• “U.S. homeownership rate drops to lowest since 1965.” (Bloomberg).• “Another GDP stunner: Growth only 1.2% over the last 3 months.” (USA Today).• “Worst economic recovery since 1930s; salaries fall $17,000 short.” (Washington Examiner).• “Let’s face it — the U.S. economy is going nowhere fast.” (CBS).It is no surprise then, when this newspaper, The Washington Times, reports on a shocking new Harris poll finding that “82 percent of Americans believe that the people running the country don’t really care what happens to them. Another 78 percent say the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer while 70 percent believe that most people in power try to take advantage of people like them.”Perhaps they feel that way because it’s true.Don’t buy the lie that Obama’s leaving behind a healthy economyThe truth is that the Obama years have been among America’s worst for the economy. His eight years will go down in history as the Great Recession, even though for much, even most, of the span, we weren’t technically in a recession.It just felt that way. And no wonder. Obama’s is the only modern presidency that failed to show a single year of growth above 3 percent, a point Trump stressed during the campaign (and that was conceded even by the website Politifact).Plus, the Obama economy failed to prosper even though the Federal Reserve had its pedal to the metal. Its quantitative easing, $2 trillion balance-sheet expansion and zero-interest-rate policy all produced zilch.Except for pumping up Wall Street and producing what Trump calls a “false economy.” The recent declines in the unemployment rate are due less to the uptick in employed persons than to an increasing number of persons leaving the labor force.In a “true economy,” what people would boast about would be the number of employed persons rising faster than the size of an expanding workforce. In reality, the job participation rate is the lowest in decades, as millions are too discouraged to seek a job.And the recent record Dow Jones average? It’s pumped up by the Federal Reserve. It’s nowhere near a record if the Dow is calculated in the most traditional measure of value. The gold value of the Dow peaked way back in 1999.Most Americans Are Worried About Losing Their HousingLast week, a new poll showed just how far this anxiety reaches in the U.S. According to a survey by the NHP Foundation, 75 percent of Americans are worried they could lose their homes, while 83 percent of respondents said that they were concerned about the rising costs of housing.Some 30 percent of the respondents described themselves as “very concerned” that they or a close friend or relative could lose their housing, meaning that nearly one-third of Americans feels that a lack of affordable housing could represent a personal crisis. Another 27 percent described themselves as “concerned”—meaning more than half of respondents consider housing instability to be a looming danger.Per the poll, about 40 percent of respondents say that they fear they could lose their homes due to job loss. This fear is not unfounded. Neil Gabler’s May cover story for The Atlantic cites Federal Reserve Board data that showed that almost half of U.S. households (47 percent) could not muster $400 in an emergency. A report by the Urban Institute shows that more than one-third of all American families (36 percent) have savings of less than $250. One-quarter of U.S. households have no savings at all.The Hill Poll: Majority of voters believe Obama has changed country for worseTwo-thirds of likely voters say President Obama has kept his 2008 campaign promise to change America — but it’s changed for the worse, according to a sizable majority.A new poll for The Hill found 56 percent of likely voters believe Obama’s first term has transformed the nation in a negative way, compared to 35 percent who believe the country has changed for the better under his leadership.The results signal broad voter unease with the direction the nation has taken under Obama’s leadership and present a major challenge for the incumbent Democrat as he seeks reelection this fall.Conducted for The Hill by Pulse Opinion Research, the poll comes in the wake of last month’s Supreme Court decision that upheld the primary elements of Obama’s signature healthcare legislation.It found 68 percent of likely voters — regardless of whether they approve or disapprove of Obama — believe the president has substantially transformed the country since his 2009 inauguration.How Obamacare Destroyed The Middle Class In One ChartAmerica’s middle class is hurting, and that’s why Trump is popular | Brookings InstitutionScapegoat diagnoses lend themselves to simplistic solutions: get rid of the scapegoats, or somehow tax or punish them other ways, and then somehow, some way, all will be better. Maybe there are enough voters who are so upset with the dysfunction in Washington, and anxious about the chaos around the world, that this is all they need to hear. They’ve had it (understandably) with traditional candidates who have State-of-the-Union-like laundry list plans for governing, either because they don’t like or understand what’s in those plans, or more likely, because they know that any campaign plan will be chewed up or stopped by a Congress that is deeply divided along partisan lines and likely to remain that way even after November, 2016.Is Obamacare Good For The Middle Class?Apparently not. For every person who has obtained insurance in the (Obamacare) exchanges, there are two other eligible people who have not enrolled. We now have a good idea why that is……For the previously uninsured, out of pocket costs for medical care go up -- even after the federal subsidies. On the plus side, they do consume more medical care once they are insured. And there is some value in the risk reduction insurance provides. But these advantages are not enough to offset the financial loss for almost everyone above 250% of the federal poverty level. Even the Obamacare mandate’s threatened penalties are not enough to make Obamacare insurance attractive to the vast majority of the uninsured middle class.That’s the conclusion of a new NBER Working Paper by Wharton School economists Mark Pauly, Adam Leive and Scott Harrington. The conclusion is consistent with the evidence on enrollment. About 83% of people obtaining insurance in the exchanges have incomes below 250% of poverty and above that level enrollment drops off sharply as income increases. (See the chart below.)…Our estimates indicate that the majority of the previously uninsured would be subject to substantial negative financial impacts by purchasing insurance on exchanges in response to the [Affordable Care Act]. Impacts on welfare are less stark, with potential gains at low income and high-risk levels. However, many of the non-poor formerly uninsured are estimated to be worse off because the subsidies are not large enough and coverage not generous enough to offset their new obligation to pay part of the premium along with required cost sharing. This loss contributes to the relatively low estimated takeup rates to date for exchange coverage for persons who do not qualify for large premium subsidies and cost sharing subsidies.So the people below aren’t happy with the Democratic option right now;DeplorablesBasement DwellersThe RidiculousEveryone that the Democrats said was racist or sexist.People still waiting for “hope and change”West VirginiaRepublicansMenPeople, who even after eight years, haven’t recovered from the recession.People that don’t like drone attacks on innocent civilians.The Middle ClassPeople that think that politicians aren’t above the law.People still looking for a job.People that lost their healthcare plan to Obamacare.People screwed by their own party in the party primary and then mocked at the National Convention.Of the die hard Democrats that the party still had left, the party forced a candidate on them that they were unmotivated to show up and vote for. They literally forced one of the few people out there that Trump could actually beat.Democrats still scratch their heads and wonder what went wrong.