2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Are Ultra Progressives Responsible for Trumps Victory? [View all]Else You Are Mad
(3,040 posts)Hillary was the candidate -- and she has to take most of the blame. She ran a campaign that did not motivate enough people in states that went to Obama in 2008 and 2012 to vote for her. It is not the responsibility of people to vote for a candidate, it is the responsibility of the candidate to motivate people to vote for them.
Hillary did not campaign enough outside of her bubble to get the once Obama voters to vote for her. She ran a campaign like it was in the bag for her, and she dismissed middle Americans that are hurting and Trump reached out to them.
We can complain about how she won the popular vote, but the EC existed when she ran her campaign and should have campaigned accordingly. She spent too much time convincing the people that were already voting for her to vote for her and ignored those that voted for Obama in the middle states because she assumed they would fall in line.