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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: What the Hell Happened? [View all]ancianita
(36,055 posts)18. Yes. What you say is true, too. Read my earlier post to get how the evidence supports all the red
flags. While I read hundreds of threads have competing reasons why we lost, the main evidence of how they won has been knowable and fightable. A few key pieces of information showed that. That's why I say "We just got caught up" in what I call culture wars, believing that we could reason a way toward a voter turnout and a win. It didn't happen the way most threads here interpreted it.
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Don't start. She won the primary, she gets most of the Superdelegates. End of story.
Peigan68
Nov 2016
#31
You don't have to be a Hillary partisan to recognize when someone is trying to
R B Garr
Nov 2016
#61
We got caught up. The Republican win was in the numbers it took to win electors. That's my takeaway.
ancianita
Nov 2016
#5
Really? To my my eye, when someone with so many freaking red flags is elected
Fast Walker 52
Nov 2016
#13
Yes. What you say is true, too. Read my earlier post to get how the evidence supports all the red
ancianita
Nov 2016
#18
I'm not saying Russians had nothing to do with it, but how did Russian get Americans
Fast Walker 52
Nov 2016
#14
Complacent, apathetic, and no money allocation for new paper ballots for uniform voting across this
lonestarnot
Nov 2016
#32
This!! I sit and think of this exact sentiment every time I see his face or everytime I hear in the
AgadorSparticus
Nov 2016
#19
I feel like she needed to go more positive the last couple weeks. Tough to do with Comey's
BootinUp
Nov 2016
#59
Ratings and advertising dollars. Money matters more than truth, country or anything else.
Vinca
Nov 2016
#24
hard to imagine Hillary getting away with that shit, considering how her one comment on
Fast Walker 52
Nov 2016
#39
Shortly afterwards Hillary said shouldn't have said it. On the other hand ...
Martin Eden
Nov 2016
#41
The media followed the shiny object, then woke up scratching their heads (some did anyway)
liberal N proud
Nov 2016
#26
to be fair and balanced. if trump does something negative they have to balance it out
JI7
Nov 2016
#45
yeah... the right is showing their true ugly colors, and they don't even care
Fast Walker 52
Nov 2016
#48
Because the electoral college enough right racists were located in the right states.
treestar
Nov 2016
#46