‘I held my nose’ and voted Trump

I am being told that I voted for Donald Trump because I am an uneducated, racist, rural, worker, redneck buffoon who has not enough sense to come in out of the rain. Fortunately, I do not feel alone. There are 60 million of us.

I am told pollsters and pundits were wrong because I refused to answer pollsters or lied, not because talking heads, newspaper editorial boards and pollsters were biased.

I don’t think I’m illiterate, but that is obviously for others to tell me. I am rural, if Fresno is. I will also proudly admit to being an accursed worker (now retired).

I admit I held my nose and voted. I would have voted for just about any of the other Republicans who ran in the primaries. However, I was not going to relinquish my Constitutional right and not vote, as some did as a protest against Trump.

I could not vote for Hillary Clinton because of some of her positions (abortion). I agreed, however, with many things she was saying, but I could not accept having someone in the White House (male or female) with political and moral heritage of the Clintons.

Now we idiots await our fate.

This story was originally published November 17, 2016 at 5:36 PM with the headline "‘I held my nose’ and voted Trump."