BILL TRIED – AT 12:40 P.M. ET:   Say what you want about Bill Clinton, and we've said plenty here, but he's  great retail politician.  Apparently he did understand the disconnect between the Democratic Party and the people it claimed to represent, but was ignored.  From the Washington Examiner: 

Bill Clinton stood before an audience of blue-collar workers in Lansing, Mich., two days before the presidential election and told them he understood and empathized with the economic frustrations of the working class.

"There's a lot of road rage out there because after the financial crash, it took a long time before incomes started going up again. There are still some families that if you adjust for inflation, their incomes are about what they were the last day I was president more than 15 years ago and their costs are going up. And that's really tough," the former president drawled as he campaigned on behalf of his wife, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

"So when you get up every morning, and you look in the mirror and you don't think you've got the power to make tomorrow better than today, that's a pretty tough load to carry," he told an audience that included union laborers.

Compared to the main themes of Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign, the former president's remarks in Lansing seemed like an off-script moment.

And...

Lansing, it turns out, was not a one-off incident for Bill Clinton. It certainly was not a first for him on the campaign trail.

His comments in Michigan marked the last leg of a lonely, one-man war he launched earlier in the election to appeal to working-class and white rural voters, whom senior Clinton staffers reportedly told him were not worth the time or effort.

COMMENT:  This is a major story.  It is worth one of those CNN documentaries that always seem to follow the leftist party line.  Maybe they could do one that doesn't.  They might call it, "Bill Clinton on Politics," and it would be worth watching.

The people who made Trump's election possible used to be the heart of the Democratic Party, and the party left them.  That is the key story of this election.

November 13, 2016