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In reply to the discussion: "Elizabeth Warren says Obama doesn't understand 'lived experience of most Americans.'" [View all]zipplewrath
(16,698 posts)I'm afraid your comments will mostly fall on deaf ears around here. It was a very close election and one can "blame" almost anything on it. But the most telling is that there were Obama voters that switched to Trump and it appears that this group of people was moved by PERCEPTIONS that Clinton was more friendly to the rich and less connected to their troubles. Sadly, Obama may have been most responsible for that because after 8 years, many of those tiny slice of voters were the ones he was never really able to help. God knows it was an obstuctionist congress that was most responsible. But they cost Her the election.
It would have helped alot though if that large voting block that showed up AT ALL for his two elections, had shown up this time. But they appear to be "one candidate" voters. We'd never really seen numbers like that before, and we may not ever again.