2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Shame on all Dems who wrongly say "Hillary didn't talk about jobs or opportunity etc etc when they [View all]Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)on the blue states. light blue to dark blue. all money all resources - forget fl forget NC. She lost in the light blue !! and not by much. It is inexcusable to me because she had 272 - just needed to shore it up. On Oct 26th I posted that her light blues were trending down. All I got from DUers was "Oh...a Concerner..LOL" Bet those were trolls and I hope they don't come back ever.
And, you are right, she did talk about jobs and opportunity. But, what she was lacking, IMHO, was a whole bunch of savvy. Someway to get around Trump saying - Ha ! she's been around 30 yrs - she's done nothing. Someway to get to those rural folks who got hoodwinked. Someone said if Carville and Begala had been running things - they could have saved it all, for sure. Even think if Bill was still on his game, he would have figured it out.
In my final postmortem - think she lacked a big ticket item to talk about. I think she should have constantly talked about how good Obama did - cite stats - constantly and then stay the course and have a few big ideas to add. This would have offset all the right saying everything had gone to hell.
thanks...had to get that all off my chest. But I feel so incredibly sad for her. she looks so sad - can't even imagine how horrible she must feel - so close - thinking the polls were right - bill thinking he'd be back in the WH.