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In reply to the discussion: Sorry, Bernie but the Democrats know whose side they are on and whose side they have always been on [View all]pnwmom
(110,328 posts)but those votes were concentrated in three states. And in at least one of those states, Wisconsin, the number of votes suppressed due to voter ID was much higher than the margin of Hillary's loss. (Over 200K votes suppressed due to voter ID, and only a 23K margin between them.)
In 2013, AFTER Obama won his second term, the Supreme Court ruled against continuing the protections of the Voting Rights Act after Congress failed to renew it. The votes of millions of voters were suppressed across the country because of this -- through new voter ID laws, the use of the CrossChek system (that discriminates against minorities), and through reduced poll locations and hours. All of these measures were taken to suppress the Democratic vote count and they succeeded.
Also, lower income and working class people voted for Hillary over Trump. The Democrats lost not because their policies didn't appeal to working class people, but because of voter suppression, the Russian propaganda attack, and Comey's two letter bombs.
And despite all that, she won 2.9 million more votes than DT -- just not enough in three key states. And because of the electoral system, she could have won 5 million more votes, even 10 million -- and still lost the Electoral College.