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In reply to the discussion: Question about Hillary Clinton and the white working class [View all]MrsCoffee
(5,801 posts)2. She was so unpopular that she won the popular vote.
And by probably much more than our "official" tally.
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She lost in the rust belt by razor thin margins. some people thought those states were "safe"
emulatorloo
Sep 2017
#6
But a "billionaire" with a fondness for bankruptcies and cheating hard working Americans was better?
LonePirate
Sep 2017
#10
It's my opinion-if you can find data showing working people liked it let me know.
jalan48
Sep 2017
#16
Oh you 'felt' that way, even though you don't have a damn thing to back it up.
emulatorloo
Sep 2017
#18
Let's run someone again who has made a lot of money giving speeches to Wall Street
jalan48
Sep 2017
#20
Let's have you prove your original assertion before you try to distract with hypotheticals
emulatorloo
Sep 2017
#22
Trump campaigned by saying he still kick out brown people. White people who voted for him
JI7
Sep 2017
#37
Her GE opponent constantly insulted her. A subset of her PE opponent's base constantly insulted her.
LonePirate
Sep 2017
#9
In 2008, you're talking about relative popularity amongst the motivated DEMOCRATIC electorate
11cents
Sep 2017
#13
HRC was popular among the WWC in 2008 and she was also popular with them when she was Secretary of
StevieM
Sep 2017
#28
Obama steadily turned off white working class voters and Hillary inherited the plummet
Awsi Dooger
Sep 2017
#44