Jack Kemp

And he even mentioned the 1960 Yankees in the body of the text. But I don't think he copied me, as this comparison is easy to come up with.

https://www.lifezette.com/polizette/what-hillary-and-the-2003-yankees-have-in-common/

What Hillary and the 2003 Yankees Have in Common
A month out from the 2016 election and Clinton's supporters still can't accept their defeat
by Jeffrey H. Anderson | Updated 06 Dec 2016 at 7:43 AM

One month after Election Day, Hillary Clinton still hasn’t — in the words of Chris Wallace — "absolutely accept[ed] the result of the election.” As Wallace put it in the third presidential debate, when addressing Donald Trump, "Sir, there is a tradition in this country … that the loser concedes to the winner and the country comes together in part for the good of the country.” At the time, Clinton called the notion that anyone would do otherwise "horrifying.”

Fast forward to December. Clinton, who lost by the not-exactly-razor-thin margin of 74 electoral votes (306 to 232), has joined a desperate recount effort, while her partisans continue to claim her advantage in the national popular vote somehow carries great weight.

In truth, however, it was Clinton’s own botched electoral strategy — and eight years of President Obama’s extreme liberalism — that led to her defeat. Instead of focusing on Main Street voters, Clinton ran her entire campaign out of the Democrats’ identity-politics playbook. Yet, while faring about equally well as previous GOP nominee Mitt Romney among white voters (winning by 21 points versus Romney’s 20), Trump did far better among black voters (losing by 80 points versus Romney’s 87), Latino voters (losing by 36 points versus Romney’s 44), and Asian voters (losing by 36 points versus Romney’s 47). That’s right: An immigration hawk rode to victory while doing better than his GOP predecessor with all races.

Meanwhile, Clinton’s having captured a higher share of the national popular vote is a fact most suitable for future trivia contests. There have been plenty of people or teams that have done well in a way that wasn’t the ultimate object of the game.

In the 2003 World Series, the New York Yankees outscored the Florida Marlins by a tally of 21 runs to 17 runs. But the Marlins beat the Yankees, 4 games to 2. (The Marlins lost twice by scores of 6-1 and won four close games.) The year before, the San Francisco Giants scored more runs than the Anaheim Angels (44 to 41), but the Angels won the series (4 games to 3).

In 1960, the New York Yankees outscored the Pittsburgh Pirates by a margin of more than 2-1 — 55 runs to 27 (winning three times by double digits but losing four games by 7 runs combined). Does Team Hillary think the Yankees should have hung a banner that year and called themselves world champions? Do they think the Pirates should take down the banner that hangs in their stadium today?

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