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In reply to the discussion: the LIKABILITY of Hillary Clinton (considering some of the crap we are hearing these days) [View all]JI7
(89,283 posts)38. Hillary got close to same number of votes Obama did in 2012
Obama got fewer votes than in 2008. It's always going to be more difficult for the party in power after 8 years kin office.
She got millions more votes and things like russia, Comey, media played a huge role.
And trumps bigotry WAS a factor. It wasn't just him against Clinton. He easily beat multiple republican candidates in the primary. And those candidates were not attacked the way Clinton was who still ended up with millions more votes.
There is also the issue of voter suppression and end of voting rights.
That article is the usual excuse making i have seen for trump.
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the LIKABILITY of Hillary Clinton (considering some of the crap we are hearing these days) [View all]
niyad
Sep 2017
OP
thirty years of incessant hate-mongering by the reichwing media & deplorables makes
niyad
Sep 2017
#3
Just imagine a world where men couldn't "be authentic" for the reason in the OP- it's impossible!
bettyellen
Sep 2017
#9
Everyone appeals to some portion of the population (1 person to 100s of millions)...
Baconator
Sep 2017
#20
and yet, those who have not been listening to 30 years of hateful reichwing attacks
niyad
Sep 2017
#47
Every time anyone, left, right, or center, brought up her likability as an election issue,
Aristus
Sep 2017
#23
years ago, I read that many of the women murdered in the Burning Times either had
niyad
Sep 2017
#65