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2016 Postmortem

Garrett78

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6. There's no doubt Clinton hate is strong, and has been for decades.

Reply to earthside (Reply #4)

Sat Dec 17, 2016, 10:44 PM

Dec 2016

A different candidate with the exact same message and strategy would have won.

Clinton's campaign message was much more populist than Trump's, in spite of what the media would have us believe. And she won among those for whom the economy was the top issue. She won among the working class. If a portion of white working class voters have much different expectations or priorities than the working class as a whole, ask yourself why that might be.

Also, the notion that Trump of all people is a populist is batshit crazy. Anyone who believes that Trump is a populist isn't going to be reached by the Democratic Party.

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IMO, no female would have been elected, all the email, FBI, Putin were just excuses. [View all] CK_John Dec 2016 OP

Considering that Republicans lie and make up all sorts of shit rurallib Dec 2016 #1

I believe it is deeper than that, I had one 60+ told me they don't CK_John Dec 2016 #3

Considering she won the popular vote by such a margin, I can't agree. WheelWalker Dec 2016 #2

Exactly the opposite. earthside Dec 2016 #4

No the polls didn't show it from the moment she announced Buzz cook Dec 2016 #5

There's no doubt Clinton hate is strong, and has been for decades. Garrett78 Dec 2016 #6

So she was over qualified and Palin was under qualified, and a jerk like Perry ends CK_John Dec 2016 #7

No way she would have won if not for the two year witch hunt in Congress and on Fox news, doc03 Dec 2016 #8

no doubt a lot of men went into the voting booth and could not vote for a woman for POTUS, TheFrenchRazor Dec 2016 #9

Hillary won the popular vote by 3 million.other countries have female presidents so can't be that. Sunlei Dec 2016 #10

You are about a Century behind the rest of us. n/t Lil Missy Dec 2016 #11

Well for having only gotten the vote in 1920 and 60% of eligible voter didn't vote, 2020 might CK_John Dec 2016 #12

Yeah, right. Coyotl Dec 2016 #13

No, she won, her campaign team f***ed this up... Yurovsky Dec 2016 #14

Peter theil certainly thinks we were better off before women could vote La Lioness Priyanka Dec 2016 #15

Ann Coulter: Women Should Not Have The Right To Vote, But They Can Still Write Books CK_John Dec 2016 #16