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In reply to the discussion: Other than Katie Porter & a couple others, the Democratic Party STILL doesn't know how to fight back [View all]DSandra
(999 posts)That, given the narrow margins, still could have gone the other way. One well known one was her not visiting Wisconsin.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/hillary-clinton-trump-mistake-fans-book-tour-what-happened-a7943846.html%3famp
Asking Hillary voters what they think was her biggest mistake, one woman said:
She took too much for granted; I think that was her big mistake. You have to go to every state and speak to the people. I looked at a programme on CNN with Van Jones Called The Messy Truth, and he interviewed people in Kentucky to find out why they voted for Trump. And they said: Look, I voted for Obama the last two elections. Even if he couldn't get here, he sent his people here. And she just blew us off. A lot of people may have felt that way.
I bet groupthink allowed that to happen, especially when people believe that the top people in the group are infallible.