So I guess Clinton and the DNC contributed nothing to this loss.

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109. The mistakes are numerous.

Let's be honest, no candidate is perfect. Some are just less imperfect than others.

1. Hillary surrounded herself with many of the same top advisors from her 2008 run. In 2008 she lost because they couldn't read the DNC electoral primary map. In 2016 she lost because they couldn't read the General Election Electoral map.

2. The same advisors can't read polls. People keep crying "how could the polls be so wrong?" The polls weren't wrong, the people reading them didn't know what they were looking at. If you look at the questions if many of the polls, and focus on the ones that really matter, this loss was predicted about three to six weeks before the election.

3. When she speaks to the masses she comes off as a person speaking at people, not with people. In more intimate settings she is much more personable. The problem with running for president is that you have to be able to address 10,000 people just as easily as you can address 10 people. Too many of her sentences started with "I know" and "Listen, we have to", which would often be followed by what could be categorized as a lecture. If a candidate starts a sentence with "I know", then the only words that come out of your mouth next is "that you know".

4. She doesn't know how to deflect criticism, or pivot at the right moments. She allowed herself to be bogged down with the FBI and email issues. After Bill Clinton's impeachment, anyone named Clinton should know how to deal with those kind of issues. She doesn't have the natural political instincts that Bill or Obama do.

5, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz was a small part of this problem. She was an inept DNC leader and did little to prepare the electoral map for a candidate like Hillary.

These are justifiable criticisms, and if we do not address them, then we are bound to keep making the same mistakes.