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In reply to the discussion: Absolutely devastating poll for Trump [View all]JohnSJ
(98,883 posts)11 days before the election, and the media's misrepresentation and outright falsehoods for the next 7 days completely erased that lead to dead even.
That is when Jill Stein did her part.
In every critical swing state, Hillary lost by less than 1%, while stein received 1% of the vote in those critical swing states. It didn't take much.
It was a two pronged whammy which made it almost impossible to recover from.
Two reporters from the NY Times writing a book how bad the Hillary campaign was, completely minimize the Comey event, because their paper contributed to what happened.
That being said, there was no doubt that the campaign should have spent time in Michigan and other swing states which they didn't. I am not sure if they could have overcome the Comey and MSM coverage that followed though.