2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie, Bernie, Bernie... [View all]VoicesAcrossAmerica
(70 posts)For those who don't remember, in 2008 it was really close between Obama and Clinton. Had it gone the other way, wanna bet how many people would have blamed Obama for Clinton's eventual loss to McCain?
What the DC Dems don't understand is that Republicans HATE Clinton. It isn't fair. She doesn't deserve it. But they are rabid. And because she's not a great campaigner, she doesn't inspire the base to overcome this.
Primaries have been a lot more vicious than Bernie vs Hillary. He isn't responsible for articulating the way many people in the country feel. And voters are not responsible for not voting for her. It was the job of her campaign to create a strategy to beat Trump. But because they were primarily a bunch of rich white democrats, those are the only states they managed to win. They truly thought they could make Republicans vote for Hilary if they just showed them how awful Trump was. The problem is, Republicans are Republicans because they want Republican programs. And they really want a Conservative Supreme Court Justice. That "Trumped" their personal dislike of Trump.
Had Clinton's team chosen a strategy to inspire people to vote for her she'd have won. But I'm sorry, the worst idea I've ever heard in my life is I'm With Her. Had they simply changed it to She's With Me even it would have been so much better.