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In reply to the discussion: Democrats must own their values, Tea Party-style, not shift even more toward the mushy middle [View all]ZoomBubba
(289 posts)... that she did lose those states because no solid evidence has been produced otherwise. Without evidence, we just have belief, which is what religious people and conspiracy theorists rely on and can thus be turned against us in order to dismiss us. It's not saying that it didn't happen, but we just got to be careful to accept the results of the recount if no smoking gun is found. If we don't, then they can keep hammering the "look at the Democrats going from crybabies to crazies" attacks.
We just have to approach it as if he won, fair and square (with the help of a lot of fake news), going from there.
They also won the Senate and the House, thanks to a lot of those same Blue states that flipped for Trump. It seems like we should start looking at what went wrong there ... especially since several of those elections were supposed to be definite wins for us. Not having the two big GOP boogey people, Clinton and Obama, does provide an opportunity to start fresh in a way, though Democrats steal defeat from the jaws of victory like no one else.