OBAMA LOST MICHIGAN Blame game goes on

For the first year after Democrat Hillary Clinton lost her bid for the presidency in 2016, she cited myriad reasons for the loss. Now far-left filmmaker Michael Moore wants to lay the blame at the feet of then-President Barack Obama.

Obama, he said on an appearance last week on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” didn’t do enough to convince Michigan residents that everything that could have been done about the water crisis in Flint in 2016 had been done.

Michigan, which hadn’t voted for a Republican candidate since 1988, gave Donald Trump a .22 percent edge in voting in 2016. However, Genesee County, which contains the city of Flint, gave Clinton a 10 percent edge in the balloting.

But Moore, despite what the results showed, plowed on in his explanation, citing a moment in his film “Fahrenheit 11/9.”

“In the film,” he said, “I show something that sadly President Obama did by coming to Flint and telling the people the water was OK. It was still poison. And then he pretended to drink from a glass of water and then said that it wasn’t a stunt. And it was.

“And it just put a knife in the heart of so many people in Flint who were hoping he would come with the Army Corps of Engineers, dig up these poison pipes, and replace the pipes in the city. And he didn’t do that. And then people gave up and a lot of people stayed home. They didn’t vote for Trump, but they just stayed home,” he added.

In fact, more than 131,000 fewer Michiganders, compared to 2012, did vote in 2016, but whether they all would have voted for Clinton cannot be known.

Already, illegal immigrants are counted in congressional apportionment, potentially giving blue states with high illegal immigrant populations — like California and New York — additional congressional seats after the next Census, while states with low illegal populations — like Alabama and West Virginia — could lose congressional representation.