ABSTRACT
Andy Rooney's remarks echoed Barack Obama's own on Election Night in Chicago's Grant Park, the scene of the shocking violence seen on television that stopped Hubert Humphrey's campaign for president a generation before. Obama's chief strategist David Axelrod, who began his political journey as a 13-year-old selling campaign buttons for Robert Kennedy before reporting politics for the Chicago Tribune, oversaw field operations and targeting in 18 Battleground States. "Non-college-educated whites "in the outstate Midwest, counties outside metropolitan areas in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania," switched their 64 electoral votes from Obama to Donald Trump, paving Trump's path to victory. Michael Goodwin, a Jozsef Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who had worked at the New York Times for 16 years, claimed the paper failed to realize Trump was on to something. Trump, interviewed by Leslie Stahl for 60 minutes just after the election, believed his campaign succeeded because he was able to go over the head of establishment media through social media.
