Updated: November 9, 2016 8:42 PM [ET] | Originally published: November 9, 2016 1:44 PM EST; It was almost 3 a.m. when the President-elect finally took the stage, his blue suit, white shirt and red tie perfectly matched to the phalanx of flags arranged behind him. The polls and the experts and the data modelers predicted it would be a woman for the first time in the nation’s history — but no, it w