Bernie Hillary Blah, blah, blah

[Snake Plissken]

Hillary lost because people were too lazy to get off their asses and vote, it's really that simple ... end of story.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/11/politics/popular-vote-turnout-2016/index.html

[Autumn]

1. People don't seem to get that. As Obama said, elections matter and voting counts.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/opinion/sunday/the-democrats-real-turnout-problem.html?mcubz=0

One of the sillier aspects of postelection analysis is the notion that any one factor determined the result, and I want to be clear that I’m not suggesting as much. Still, the swing of white working-class voters was undeniably crucial. To that point, Craig Gilbert, of The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, has noted that large swaths of Wisconsin have now been carried by Obama, Trump, Republican governor Scott Walker and Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin.

The turnout contrast also doesn’t answer how influential was James Comey’s misguided October letter about Clinton’s email. Her campaign believes it depressed her turnout and lifted Trump’s, and it may well have.

Either way, though, turnout is a problem for Democrats that will persist long after this election. Many strong Democratic constituencies — like young voters, Latinos and Asian-Americans — have relatively low turnout rates. African-American turnout has trailed white turnout when Obama was not on the ballot.

Obama, for his part, has long had a minor obsession with the Democrats’ popularity among nonvoters. “Hopefully, it’s a reminder that elections matter and voting counts,” he said after Trump’s win. “I don’t know how many times we have to relearn this lesson, because we ended up having 43 percent of the country not voting who were eligible to vote.”

[Arazi]

2. The myopic focus on blaming Bernie is very destructive

Even more people turned off participating. We need every voter to clear the orange scum out of the WH

[Autumn]

5. Elections matter and every vote matters. And if our Dem leadership won't reach out for those votes

they won't get them. That's all there is to it.

[Snake Plissken]

3. The media had one goal this entire election and that was to make it a horse race

The amount of free marketing the media gave Trump was obscene, and even the tiniest negative information about Hillary was amplified with a magnifying glass, all for the sake of influencing the polls to be as close as possible on election day. Comey's announcement wasn't even really negative, but the media ran with it and skewed it to the point that Hillary wa about to be taken away in handcuffs.

But even after all that, it all came down over 40% of eligible voters not caring enough about the outcome to bother voting, that is why we are now stuck with a pile of shit like Trump.

[Autumn]

6. I agree with everything you said. The media is another thing that needs to be adressed.

[nolabels]

4. Just like the republicans want it

Any questions?