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2016 Postmortem

FBaggins

(27,904 posts)

5. Having trouble with logic this morning?

Reply to boston bean (Reply #4)

Mon Dec 5, 2016, 09:40 AM

Dec 2016

This was the first national election where both major candidates had negative approval numbers. There were hundreds of thousands of people who showed up to vote for local races and didn't even vote for President. There isn't any reason that these (or the Johnson voters) would necessarily have voted for either major-party candidate had it been a two-way race.

There were also millions who voted in 2012 or 2008 who saw no reason to turn out for any of the candidates this time around.

If Hillary failed to appeal to them, it's folly to blame them and not her.