Maybe Clinton Wasn't to Blame for Trump's Victory

[karynnj]

74. Most of those links do not speak of the NYT "bungling" the story

In fact, only the first one - a clear polemic just from reading the title does. The second next two actually would back the op of this thread -- the coverage of the election on both sides was very negative - both sides predominantly attacked each other in their ads. The last one simply makes the case that while HRC was wrong, people should vote for her if they agreed with the policies.

I think people heard the various Trump scandals - the Access Hollywood tape, the shady deals and bankruptcies, all the outrageous comments that SHOULD have ended his chances. However, they still voted for him in spite of everything. I suspect that very very few if any people did not vote for HRC because of her email practices - and it even less likely they voted for Trump just because of that.

For years after 2004, that ignoring that he actually would have won had there been enough voting machines in Ohio, my husband constantly told me that it was not that people did not see who Kerry was ... and who Bush/Cheney were. They got the differences and too many were all too willing to vote for Cheney, not in spite of things like Abu Ghraeb, but because of them. (In fact, in more diplomatic words, Kerry said the same thing that in the wake of 911, too many people were still too bonded to B/C.)

In essence that is what this op is saying about 2016.