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In reply to the discussion: I like Cory Booker a lot but he needs to keep as much distance as possible from Trump... [View all]still_one
(98,883 posts)Presidential nominee". That is a complete distortion and misrepresentation of where she stood on the issues.
Hillary lost because 11 days before the election, Comey and the FBI decided to interfere with the election by sending a letter to the republicans in congress. The republicans and the media then proceeded to LIE about that letter by saying the "email investigation was being reopened"
That was NOT true. The letter did NOT say the email investigation, and there is no doubt from Nate Silver's analysis, based on his data, she would have won if it wasn't for that complete distortion of the facts.
Interestingly, even with that, if those self-identified progressives who voted for Jill Stein, had voted for Hillary, she would have still won, but they choose instead to ignore where she actually stood on the issues, and push their false equivalency bullshit, and contributed to putting trump where he is today.
Noam Chomsky said it best, "Progressives who refused to vote for Hillary Clinton made a bad mistake"
"Legendary linguist and activist Noam Chomsky thinks that progressives and left-wingers who didnt want to vote for Hillary Clinton this year have badly miscalculated and will now pay a very dear price."
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/noam-chomsky-progressives-who-refused-to-vote-for-hillary-clinton-made-a-bad-mistake/
Hillary won the nomination by a large amount, and she won the popular vote by over three million votes
As to your false characterization that she lost because of her "Wall Street friendly ties", is that the reason that every Democrat running for Senate lost in those critical swing states to the incumbent, establishment, republican? Those Democrats, such as Russ Feingold and the others were NOT wall street pawns, and neither was Hillary.