Neither Jill Stein Nor Susan Sarandon Lost 2016 For Clinton. Trump Switchers Did

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42. She complains that she and Tim Kaine made a 635-mile trip around Ohio and Pennsylvania

but nobody knew abou it because Trump was fighting with the Khans and that was what the media covered: "In fact, you may well have heard that I didn't campaign like this at all; that I ignored the Rust Belt, didn't have an economic message, and couldn't connect with working-class voters. Why the disconnect?"

She says the polls were up by a 3-point margin in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, then came the Comey letter. Exit polls of undecided swing state voters broke heavily for Trump, Florida too. In four Pennsylvania suburban counties she had a 36-point margin over Trump and by Election Day it was only 13 points. White working class women: Hillary was only four points behind Trump during the debates, after Comey Trump surged to 24 points.

White identity (not economic anxiety -- 60% of Trump supporters without a college degree were in the top half of income distribution) plus the diploma divide. In 2009 the number of whites belonging to the two parties was about the same. But 2016 the Republican part was the white people's party. Trump made the election about racial identity.

MSM covering policy in only 10% of their election coverage so all anyone heard about were scandals.

She says "I skipped the venting and went straight to the solving" in a year when populist yelling and ridiculous promises was a thing.

First election after the changes to the Voting Rights Act.

Social media flooded with disinformation created to reduce support among likely Democratic voters:

"Google searches about WikiLeaks were particularly high in swing states with large numbers of voters ... . In other words, a lot of people were online trying to get to the bottom of these crazy claims and conspiracy theories before casting their vote. Too often, what they found was more misinformation and Russian-directed propaganda."

"Many Democratic-leaning voters flirting with third-party candidates ended up actually pulling the lever for them. And some undecided voters we expected to ultimately choose us went to Trump instead or stayed home." Russian propaganda was effective. Public figures repeated it. Labeling Hillary establishment, not progressive, corrupt and beholden to corporations and Wall Street, evil, neoliberal not caring about economic equality, wealthy elite who ignores the working class, racist, Goldwater Girl -- the list is endless. Trump's "Crooked Hillary" developed from CTs about the DNC and Hillary rigging elections as well as the email thing.

It was all these reasons.