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In reply to the discussion: When you stay home or vote third party, THIS is what happens. Make a different choice next time. [View all]It just validates the fact Sanders was ten points ahead, while Hillary regularly polled either even, or one point up, of Trump. Sanders was regularly polling ten points up, on Trump.
There is always a lot of "external" noise, and I'm willing to accept maybe Russians, or old Soviet States, and a lot of other things were out there. The candidate's job is to cut through the noise. All you can really change is your internal policies, which she tried to do, switching to "public" policy positions very close to Sander's platform. So, with all of the bashing of Sanders for his legitimate issues with how our party has strayed from its mark, according to Hillary at the end, his platform was indeed, the correct one. She essentially agreed, we need to shift back left, to push some new (or really old) ideas. She agreed, the Party had gotten too distant from the people.
Far as accusations about why people were voting, I must've heard "first woman president" about a thousand times, usually as a response completely unrelated to what issue we were talking about. It is true, I made the point Stein was a woman too, but usually as a response to someone calling me a sexist. I know how the EC works, apparently unlike a lot of Democrats, who seem to keep running around citing the "3 million more votes." Sadly the middle states, have way more power in the EC, much like the Super Delegates do in the Established Democratic Party, than the people.
All we can do is try to get one, of two parties, back to serving workers, and the poor. Rich, professional Democrats, can keep selecting their candidates, and losing. Or you can join us, and fight for the poor, and workers, and unions, and whatever smattering of Manufacturing we can win back--at this point, automation has been increasingly a force, destroying jobs globally. I might even suggest Democrats start experimenting with a whole new paradigm, perhaps a Basic Universal Income concept.