2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The Democratic Party is for social AND economic justice. It isn't an "either/or" situation! [View all]KPN
(15,587 posts)it doesn't explain why Obama won two elections convincingly while Hillary did not. In my mind, it comes down to Hillary just had too much baggage (some warranted some not -- but all a result of being a politician in the public's eye for decades) and didn't come across as genuine to too many people. She had the economic message, but not the cred.
I have to say that she won me over during the convention, but until that point, I never saw her as genuine. Had she the ability to appear more genuine, would she have won? Hard to say for sure. But there's no question many if not most Americans are tired of the same old politicians. And that's what we -- the Democratic Party -- gave them.
Fundamental Christians are a problem for the Democratic Party, but they are not in themselves the reason we lost this election.