>>with only a small chance that his performance was actually only targeted at low education whites and that he can handle himself better without such a pre-election handicap.

They said women would not vote for him. But they did in droves in Florida. They said minorities would not vote for him. But he won Michigan. And so it goes on.

IMHO the pundits had completely the wrong end of the stick. Nothing can change until they stop assigning genius to their own effete mantras about colour, gender and other elements that left them completely disconnected from the electorate, rather than Trump's siren call of "Make America Great Again" vs "Crooked Hillary means more of the same." Reality check: women, Hispanics and African Americans also worry about feeding the kids and don't really care whether an elite breaks a glass ceiling if the other candidate comes to visit and talks about bringing back jobs.

That's why he won. Men and women, black and white and in between, basically everybody puzzled by the loss of self pride and confidence in the US and/or worried at their ability to feed the kids, responded to Trump's message of hope and change. And then in the media this AM I see a reporter asserting that Trump's call was against change, harking back to a better past. The media is blind to its own bias that was so obvious that voters ignored the MSM to deliver a result the MSM calls "unexpected" - without even realizing what that says about themselves and their relevance to their customers.