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2016 Postmortem

Flavius Aetius

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3. The problem is

Reply to boston bean (Original post)

Thu Dec 1, 2016, 11:59 AM

Dec 2016

She got those votes in states that were not in play and she lost the electoral college. Like it or not that is the way the system is set up and is not changing anytime soon. Our message has to play nation wide just not in certain states or we will continue to loose.

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