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2016 Postmortem

guillaumeb

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2. Agreed. Trump's margin of victory was truly razor thin in the three states he

Reply to JHan (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 6, 2016, 05:37 PM

Dec 2016

needed to win. And the North Carolina vote seems to have been suppressed by the selective closure of early voting sites in black majority districts. And the same thing happened in Milwaukee.

The campaign platform was a good platform, but the media chose to focus instead on the more "newsworthy" candidate.

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thanks for the reasoned analysis.. JHan Dec 2016 #1

Agreed. Trump's margin of victory was truly razor thin in the three states he guillaumeb Dec 2016 #2