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2016 Postmortem

In reply to the discussion: What the Hell Happened? [View all]
What the Hell Happened? [View all] Fast Walker 52 Nov 2016 OP
Emails. And Benghazi. The Velveteen Ocelot Nov 2016 #1
And CNN and MSNBC and FOX TrishaJ Nov 2016 #16
Nope. It was Jeff Zucker and CNN who are to blame. duffyduff Nov 2016 #2
the media was a HUGE part of it, if not completely their fault Fast Walker 52 Nov 2016 #11
Oh yes, they were. Zucker literally CREATED Donald Trump the candidate. n/t duffyduff Nov 2016 #42
Agreed. They became addicted to the add revenues. kairos12 Nov 2016 #58
Corporate mefia. SammyWinstonJack Nov 2016 #3
Plus a gazillion Retrograde Nov 2016 #10
Super-delegates chose poorly? Denis 11 Nov 2016 #4
No guarantee of a win either MFM008 Nov 2016 #6
True Denis 11 Nov 2016 #23
Don't start. She won the primary, she gets most of the Superdelegates. End of story. Peigan68 Nov 2016 #31
The super-delegate system is supposed to help find the best candidate. Denis 11 Nov 2016 #36
No. Common knowledge is that you don't let a losing R B Garr Nov 2016 #53
He energized a lot of voters Denis 11 Nov 2016 #54
He alienated voters from the Democratic party with unrealistic promises and R B Garr Nov 2016 #55
Should we give up on minimum wage raise then. Denis 11 Nov 2016 #57
You don't have to be a Hillary partisan to recognize when someone is trying to R B Garr Nov 2016 #61
Or someone "skipped" the southern states and openly claimed such twice? uponit7771 Nov 2016 #49
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
oh, I see -- thanks Fast Walker 52 Nov 2016 #25
Media. Bernie. Comey. Gerrymandering. Vote hacking. nt JTFrog Nov 2016 #7
Russians. lonestarnot Nov 2016 #8
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
ALL OF THE ABOVE Auggie Nov 2016 #9
I remember the day Reagan won flamingdem Nov 2016 #12
I was 24 on inauguration day 1981 and mostly out of it ... Auggie Nov 2016 #17
Agreed, all the above and more! LongTomH Nov 2016 #20
Comey's last minute interference tipped the election andym Nov 2016 #15
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
We overplayed the Trump card. gulliver Nov 2016 #21
This is on target. She kept beating that dead horse. LuckyLib Nov 2016 #34
I feel like she needed to go more positive the last couple weeks. Tough to do with Comey's BootinUp Nov 2016 #59
"So what the hell happened???" Martin Eden Nov 2016 #22
Ratings and advertising dollars. Money matters more than truth, country or anything else. Vinca Nov 2016 #24
Bingo Martin Eden Nov 2016 #29
but did they ignore all these things, or just made people not care? Fast Walker 52 Nov 2016 #33
They didn't ignore those things; they normalized those things Martin Eden Nov 2016 #37
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
definitely... some sort of strange insanity hit us during the election Fast Walker 52 Nov 2016 #43
1, and continue to normalize them uponit7771 Nov 2016 #50
The media followed the shiny object, then woke up scratching their heads (some did anyway) liberal N proud Nov 2016 #26
stupid Americans have turned the presidency into a reality TV show Skittles Nov 2016 #27
media made it acceptable. contrast with emails which they kept pushing JI7 Nov 2016 #28
EMAILS budkin Nov 2016 #30
but it was the media that drove that story, right? Fast Walker 52 Nov 2016 #35
to be fair and balanced. if trump does something negative they have to balance it out JI7 Nov 2016 #45
Holy crap-- check out the "Look who's back" movie on Netflix Fast Walker 52 Nov 2016 #38
Bookmarking. n/t Hugin Nov 2016 #40
America is a fucking hell of a lot more right wing is what happened sadly... Locut0s Nov 2016 #44
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
Hacked election results. Great list of disqualifiers, Fast. rec, nt. Mc Mike Nov 2016 #47
Purging voter lists, Russia, and CNN happened. -Steph- Nov 2016 #51
U.S. Intelligence officials said Russia targetted state and local election systems KatyBR Nov 2016 #52
Exactly! Stainless Nov 2016 #56
CNNMSNBCFox...etc workinclasszero Nov 2016 #60
I've read this a couple times now. So true! R B Garr Nov 2016 #62
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