The Russians just had to flip 40,000 votes in three States

[Awsi Dooger]

144. I feel sorry for anyone who doesn't believe in the Magic Bullet Theory

That type is destined to go through life butchering one simple evaluation after another.

This after-the-fact 2016 analysis conveniently ignored all of the close states that went to Hillary, like New Hampshire, Nevada and Minnesota. I guess that was just guaranteed to happen, and nothing the Russians could do about it, so they left those alone. Heck, we've got plenty already.

Suppression and the social media attacks were the successful cheats, along with such an unprecedented number of blatant lies by the candidate. Nobody was familiar with 40% lies during a campaign, let alone 72%, so the media couldn't deal with it sufficiently, nor the voters. Trump understood the immense value in that, since he's specialized in it all his life. He used the Roy Cohn approach and no doubt will take it to greater extreme as an incumbent in 2020.