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2016 Postmortem

zipplewrath

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5. Not my intent

Reply to Fla Dem (Reply #4)

Sat Dec 3, 2016, 02:56 PM

Dec 2016

We all know that HRC got more votes than Trump. It's just that Trump got fewer votes than Romney. But Trump won because HRC got even fewer votes that Obama did. It's why she lost.

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Is the fact that both candidates had historically high negatives being ignored? [View all] NRQ891 Dec 2016 OP

No one knows what to do with it zipplewrath Dec 2016 #1

good points nt NRQ891 Dec 2016 #2

Not true that HRC recevied 6M fewer votes than Obama 2012. HRC received only 1.1 million fewer votes Fla Dem Dec 2016 #4

Not my intent zipplewrath Dec 2016 #5

I listened to NPR at noon the next day NRQ891 Dec 2016 #3

Yes. Only HRC's negatives mattered, because Russia said so, and Trump is Vladmir's chump, and so LaydeeBug Dec 2016 #6

what i felt... djsunyc Dec 2016 #7

The only negatives that seem to count around here are HRC's. Paladin Dec 2016 #8

GOP set up Hillary for failure --negatives of both candidates WERE the key factors in this election andym Dec 2016 #9