It's too early to preach Trump's funeral

By BERRY CRAIG

AFT Local 1360

I’m an MSNBC news junkie.

On election eve, I was glued to our TV. I started watching “With All Due Respect” and ended with “The Eleventh Hour with Brian Williams.”

I spent most of the time wincing, shaking my head and squirming on the couch.

Almost everybody—except the occasional Donald Trump flacks—was preaching King Leer's funeral. The hosts, the guests, the pundits and the pollsters kept talking as if Hillary Clinton were president-elect.

They speculated on what might happen if he of the Tang-hued hair doesn’t concede. They mulled over what a Clinton presidency might be like.

I kept recalling famous words attributed to Yogi Berra and Mark Twain:

“It ain’t over ‘till the fat lady sings,” the Hall of Fame Yankee catcher supposedly warned. “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated,” the great writer allegedly quipped.

I voted for Bernie Sanders in the May primary. But like Sanders, I'm Ready for Hillary.

I am glad she has the edge in most polls. I’d rather be a few up than a few down.

The TV talking heads aside, she's not taking anything for granted. I hope her supporters won't either and will turn out big for her tomorrow.

"If you're 10 points up, you should run like your 10 points down," says Jeff Wiggins, president of my CLC, the Western Kentucky AFL-CIO Area Council.

Voters should cast ballots accordingly in every election.

Meanwhile, I'm also hearing some Kentucky Democrats concede that while Trump will win the Bluegrass State, the Democrats will hang onto their majority in the House of Representatives and maybe pick up a seat or two.

That's also music to my ears. But only votes can make it happen.

I plan to be up early tomorrow helping prove the TV pundits and the Democratic optimists right.

I'm going to vote for the national AFL-CIO-endorsed Clinton for president. I'll also cast a ballot for Jesse Wright, the Kentucky State AFL-CIO-endorsed candidate in my House district, and for Sam Gaskins, who the state AFL-CIO endorsed for Congress in the First District.  

Here's a prediction I'm confident to make: the better Clinton does in Kentucky, the better our House candidates--all of our candidates--will do.

Brothers and sisters, I invite you to join me in helping prove that in Kentucky "Love Trumps Hate" and helping  keep the gavel in Speaker Stumbo's hands.

So vote, vote, vote.

Still, I'm not going to celebrate until Clinton hits the magic 270 and I see on the news that the House is still ours.