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hollowdweller

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12. People not in rural areas would not understand

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Mon Feb 20, 2017, 11:08 AM

Feb 2017

But in a lot of rural areas Clinton was hated.

30 years of character assassination worked.

Also the NRA really worked the gun issue and that's why Clinton lost rural areas.

I live in WV and Sanders won in the primary here but Clinton's comments on coal and her vocal support for gun control over the years made her toxic.

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Trump supporters believed that Hillary Clinton as President would have been the end of America. [View all] kentuck Feb 2017 OP

So did many on the left, it wasn't the right I'm worried about ... most of em are lost its the ones uponit7771 Feb 2017 #1

Yes there are those on the left who fit the description in this OP Tom Rinaldo Feb 2017 #3

I think many on the left were "captured" by the right-wing media. kentuck Feb 2017 #4

And disinformation in general, some of suspicious origin Tom Rinaldo Feb 2017 #8

and forfieted the chance to remake scotus to leaning left Ohioblue22 Feb 2017 #14

This election proved... yallerdawg Feb 2017 #2

+1 dalton99a Feb 2017 #19

So the question becomes: Was she that bad a candidate, Ron Green Feb 2017 #5

Who cares? tazkcmo Feb 2017 #6

Because both her husband's and her former boss's administrations were oh-so harmful to America. Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2017 #7

I think it was a failure of the Democratic Party, to a large extent... kentuck Feb 2017 #9

Oh exactly. She was more toxic than Ted Kennedy around here. hollowdweller Feb 2017 #13

+1 leftstreet Feb 2017 #16

I doubt if Hillary would have destroyed millions of families and sinkingfeeling Feb 2017 #10

I was unaware of all the conspiracy theories until the RWNJ told me about them....what's most TrekLuver Feb 2017 #11

People not in rural areas would not understand hollowdweller Feb 2017 #12

Because fake news is actually their God. Fake news is Lint Head Feb 2017 #15

Yep. Fake Christians love fake news. roamer65 Feb 2017 #17

I would love to create fake news that causes an international incident Lint Head Feb 2017 #18