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In reply to the discussion: Question about Hillary Clinton and the white working class [View all]StevieM
(10,500 posts)28. HRC was popular among the WWC in 2008 and she was also popular with them when she was Secretary of
State. She left office with 69 percent job approval and 66 percent favorability.
Many Americans just couldn't imagine that the GOP would blatantly exploit and lie about Benghazi. By the time they realized that the GOP could do that she had already been softened up for the fake email scandal. Then they couldn't imagine that there would be a big FBI investigation for no reason.
This was Comey's election. The FBI dominated it from beginning to end. HRC's poll numbers would have recovered from the lies about Benghazi and the fake email scandal if the FBI had not become totally corrupted.
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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