2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Yes, Millennials also cost us the election. [View all]exboyfil
(18,067 posts)For example Chelsea was in Stevens Point, but not Hillary. Was she ever in the state of Wisconsin during the General Election?
Before the last second push in Michigan, she was in the state once in October. A few visits by her surrogates to Michigan in September, but none by her. One time in Michigan in August for her, and once for Kaine.
You also have the advertising focus. I am not sure under what scenarios the one Omaha would have made a difference, but you can see the spend at the end of the election.
In the closing weeks of the presidential race, Hillary Clinton's campaign and the outside groups that supported it aired more television advertisements in Omaha than in the states of Michigan and Wisconsin combined.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/12/the-advertising-decisions-that-helped-doom-hillary-clinton/?utm_term=.df06b5e3e4f0