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29. People like to place blame on their pet issues.

When the margins were as close as they were in 2016, it is easy to point to any one little misstep and lay the entire defeat upon it. I think HRC would have been better served by being vocally the proud, progressive liberal she always has been. I felt like the messaging in her campaign really missed the mark - that a focus group was responsible. She is such an amazing person and would have been such an amazing president. I don’t think she was represented well, at all, by the messaging in her campaign.

But we’ve had folks blame Bill Clinton, Obama, Bernie, Bernie supporters, Russia, Comey, and 25 years of right wing smear campaigns.

I think it’s clear that Comey’s actions had an impact, along with the a Russian misinformation and of course the years of right wing smears that HRC had to endure. But most of the other excuses are just people blowing smoke. Anyone who claims they didn’t vote for HRC because Bill or Bernie or Obama campaigned too much (or too little), weren’t going to vote for her anyway.