2016 Postmortem

mythology

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5. I would argue that the message does play a role

Sun Nov 27, 2016, 07:38 PM

Nov 2016

Trump had a great slogan. Simple, easy to remember. Clinton had long detailed plans that wouldn't fit on a bumper sticker. I think the ability to have that short easy to digest bumper sticker approach is helpful. Gore also suffered from being substantially smarter than Bush and it showed at times. Obama on the other hand was much better than McCain or Romney at getting his message out.

It's frustrating that substantive policies lost to the drooling troglodyte, but a lot of those people voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012. It's kind of hard to label them as just inherently racist.

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