Only a few weeks ago the results of the U.S. presidential election were a foregone conclusion, with a second President Clinton all but assured her place in history. To paraphrase.. a funny thing happened on the way to the podium. In the time since, pundits and prognosticators have tried to understand what happened, what it says about America, and what we should expect in the years to come. Sander Grieve and Linda Misetich Dann write in the Canadian Mining Journal.