The Democrats have a working class problem - and it's by no means confined to working class whites.

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32. I think you missed the point

In an electoral system, the popular vote is meaningless. The election was lost because in the locations where it mattered, she lost. She lost, as someone else suggested, because of a hard to explain perception that the result didn't matter. This is true for both people who voted (because Trump would be "funny" or something) and those that didn't (because it didn't matter). In an election as close as this, almost anything can be "blamed" for the loss. The point here is that people who should have voted for her (and other democratic candidates) basically didn't show up at all because they perceive no connection between their vote and the eventual outcome for themselves.

This perception is due to many different factors. 1) People don't necessarily pay close attention to things. They don't notice that an election that might have gone the other way could have been much worse. 2) Elections rarely result in the outcomes that are promised. The GOP is struggling with this right now, and we saw some of that with Obama. Promises are made that are never fulfilled, or that are fulfilled with results that are unsatisfying or unexpected. 3) They are honestly disappointed because this minority of voters is "left behind" by policies they didn't vote for, they don't understand, and that don't benefit them at all.

The article is really mostly about #3. In a close election we can discuss all manner of reasons for coming up short. That there is voter suppression and Russian interference doesn't change the reality that there was also a lack of turnout by the very people that needed to turn out the most.