[killer_carlson]

I think this result shows that the numbers of rank and file Americans who were totally fed up with the status quo. As someone put it tonight, it was a referendum on their instutitions in Washington and it was overwhelming that they are broken.

Voters were willing to overturn the apple cart and support a candidate with substantial baggage do so rather than continue with the current system.

Hopefully American democracy gets itself sorted out quickly. It's going to be painful for a lot of the political elites, but it's going to happen.