I am tired of hearing how Hillary blew it

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82. We walked into a 15 year old pit trap.

The Republicans have been setting it up since at least 2000, and had been running negative ads since the early 90's against Hillary. Hillary hate was multi-generational. Her unpopularity numbers were readily visible and out in the open. It was hubris and nostalgia that made so many people convinced that she absolutely had to be the candidate.

She was defeated by a little known Senator from Illinois whose middle name was Hussein, less than eight years after 9/11. I was actually intensely proud of my party and my country when we did manage to get President Obama elected. And I would ask how likely a president with an intensely Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, German, or even a Russian name would have been elected at various times so close to war? Our country went beyond that and proved who we could be as a people.

But it should have been a wake up call to Senator Clinton. She should have nodded and sought to get back into the Senate when the opportunity presented itself. 2016 should have been an open nomination without such a large percentage of superdelegates being virtually on lock by July of 2015. Had the DNC political machine not worked so hard to beat the bushes and drive away other candidates from even considering a run then Bernie might not have even bothered.

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I showed up. I supported Bernie in the primary and I voted Hillary in the general.

If we made a mistake it was in nominating her. But it is a candidates job to get votes. She had a crappy team around her. They avoided even talking about Crosscheck or voter suppression as they were the biggest problems this election. Even now, Brazile and her war room are not even bothering to speak of Crosscheck. To them it is all Russia, all the time and the most Russia did was dump some internal emails on a media outlet.