2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: As a black loyal Democrat, I say SCREW the white working class who insist on voting Republican [View all]brush
(58,475 posts)from voting and that made the difference. Why do you think repugs put all that time and effort into vote suppression on all levels from gutting the voting rights admendment to ID requirement laws that weren't in place before to caging to misinformation campaigns as to voting date and polling location to cutting out early voting and drastically cutting polling locations in POC communities and to cutting the number of voting machines in the reduced number of polling places which created long voting lines which discouraged many from standing in hours-long lines.
Repugs do that stuff because if works. It decreases the vote in Clinton voter neighborhoods. They also make sure there are plenty of polling places and voting machines in white areas. They pull all the dirty tricks in the book and you should be aware of that.
I believe Trumps racist dog whistles also bought out many whites who didn't vote before, and who wanted "their country back", as has been said many time before.
And then there is a distinct possibility that voting machines were hacked, which is why Jill Stein, of all people, is asking for recounts (she's actually trying to appease people so they won't call her the new Ralph Nader as her votes would have put Hillary, who got her share of white voters, over the top, even with all the repug machinations.