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2016 Postmortem

ucrdem

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17. They were ready for Clinton. They weren't ready for Stein.

Reply to aikoaiko (Reply #15)

Sun Nov 27, 2016, 02:05 PM

Nov 2016

That's just one reason but there are others. They showed Hillary's reps what they wanted them to see but it appears they also stole half of Stein's votes and didn't expect her to come looking for them.

Surprise.

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Stein raised 6,000,000 in three days. [View all] madaboutharry Nov 2016 OP

If she was looking for a cause she hit the mother lode. ucrdem Nov 2016 #1

She sure did. People are looking for a life raft, anything. Just imagine if the DNC... Hekate Nov 2016 #2

Absolutely. The sad part is that the rest of it makes no difference whatsoevery ucrdem Nov 2016 #3

But the Comey letter bombs swayed a bunch of undecideds at the end. pnwmom Nov 2016 #4

Well, not in Wisconsin at least. Made no discernible difference at all. ucrdem Nov 2016 #5

The second bomb was dropped on Nov. 6 -- that uptick on the 6th would have been pnwmom Nov 2016 #6

Stein lost half her votes on Nov. 8 per RCP. ucrdem Nov 2016 #7

The second letter was just as damaging as the first. pnwmom Nov 2016 #8

Sure but it's just one more meme. If the first letter had no effect, ucrdem Nov 2016 #9

Comey's letters were very effective. LisaL Nov 2016 #12

Yea, we should believe polls, cause polls turned out to be so accurate this time around. LisaL Nov 2016 #11

You'd rather believe Trump's former campaign manager Lewandowski? ucrdem Nov 2016 #16

Hillary's campaign also blamed her loss on Comey. LisaL Nov 2016 #20

I am sure most of donations are from democrats. LisaL Nov 2016 #10

Of course they are FBaggins Nov 2016 #22

It's good for Jill Stein and her Green Party, that's for sure. EL34x4 Nov 2016 #13

She claims any money left over will be used for election integrity efforts. LisaL Nov 2016 #14

The payment for the Wisconsin recount is due on Tuesday, Nov. 29 dragonlady Nov 2016 #19

I wish it had been HRC to do this. aikoaiko Nov 2016 #15

They were ready for Clinton. They weren't ready for Stein. ucrdem Nov 2016 #17

Ok, but it seems like we didn't learn anything from 2000 and 2004. aikoaiko Nov 2016 #18

donations have slowed down. Can she raise the remaining 800,000 to get to 7 million KewlKat Nov 2016 #21

I donated and I think she is a dingbat phleshdef Nov 2016 #23