Was Hillary's loss result of campaigning in error?

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  1. osbornterry

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    Who did you vote for, or can you vote?
     
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    Never vote for the career politician. That is the WORST thing you can do for the country, much, much worse than Donald Trump. Those career politicians are part of the government machine and nothing they say can be believed or taken seriously.
     
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    We need to get rid of these old political families once and for all. They are really BAD for America. The Clintons, the Bushes, etc. NEVER vote for one of them. What is really disgusting is how they villainize others when these politicians are even worse. MUCH worse. I will always vote for the one who vows to "shake things up" in the government because that is exactly what we need, and THAT just happens to be Donald Trump at this moment. So while you may hate him, just remember that your government officials are TEN times worse.

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    In see deplorable bumper stickers all the time, usually on a pickup, and one car in m y office parking lot has Infadel on it, still makes me laugh a year later.
     
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    After reading some of the DNC leaked emails . . . I just can't believe that anyone would still be a "follower" of that party. Talk about sheep! Holy smokes! :eek: It is just plain scary how brainwashed the left is. All they really are is government lackeys.
     
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    Aleksander Ulyanov Well-Known Member

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    Why does that matter? Are you trying to argue that someone other than those who voted for him are responsible for Trump being President? (I can and always have voted, and probably in more elections than you)
     
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    Aleksander Ulyanov Well-Known Member

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    BS too. Whatever problems Hillary may have had it was pretty much impossible to offer anything worse than what you were running
     
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    Yes a brilliant strategy and quite effective at courting those undecided voters. Insult the American voters - way to GO, Hillary!
     
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    Can uyou blame those "Bernie idiots" for staying home after what the DNC pulled on them? Really!
     
  11. Stuart Wolfe

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    The above post is Exhibit A as to both why the Dems lost and why it might be awhile before they ever win. We've had several threads here regarding Hilla blaming everything from Putin to the New York Times to Netflix for her loss, anyone and anything except Hilla herself. In many ways she's like my grifter brother-in-law who has no problem saying he's sorry but never takes the next step and says he's responsible. Hilla lost because too many people disagreed with the above statement; that Hilla was indeed worse than Trump.

    The problem wasn't that Trump wasn't that good - I'll easily admit that and have on many occasions. But Hilla was magnitudes worse. I'm somewhat amazed that people forget how hated she was in previous runs, her sheer arrogance in the way she carried herself which expressed itself in her and her sycophants feeling in 2008 that her coronation was an inevitability. People hated her so much that they were looking for anyone to run against her that they could vote for. On paper, Obama shouldn't have had a chance against her and yet he won the nom against her pretty handily. Fast-forward to 2016 where you see people who like Trump and people who hate him. But Hilla, there's people who hate her - and that's it.

    Another thing that's ignored by Hilla Drones is that she has always, ALWAYS represented the establishment that people do not like, and always at the worst possible moment. I mean, look HERE at this analysis by CBS regarding the fight for the nom in 2008 between Hilla and Obama: "Voters clearly wanted a new approach to deal with these problems. A majority (51 percent), said they wanted a candidate who could bring about change, as opposed to 23 percent who preferred a candidate with experience. Fourteen percent wanted a candidate who cares about people like them, and 9 percent wanted a candidate who would win in November. Obama was the choice among voters who sought change, while Clinton was the choice among voters who sought experience..." And that scenario repeated itself again in 2016.

    It's like she never learns.
     
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    Its not that she didn't know-she didn't care.

    And democrats dutifully got in line because it was her turn.
     
  13. Stuart Wolfe

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    It's kind of hard to know for sure which it was. She was so besotted, drunk, and self-medicated during most of the campaign that an argument can be made that she didn't know because she was unable to.



    But you did touch upon something else: The "It's My Turn" campaign she ran. That almost never works nowadays. It didn't work for McCain and it didn't work for Dole. Probably a few more out there but when the party hands someone the nod just because they fell the guy deserves it that year, the hoi polloi almost never respond in kind.
     
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    Her major fall and concussion resulting in an intracrancial blood clot and double vision is well known.
    Less well know is Hillary has a history of fall and concussions.

    The question no body asks is why does Hillary fall so much?
    Musculo-Skeletal?
    Neurological?
    Cardiovascular?
    Metabolic?
    etc.

    With her tendency towards becoming "puffy" my guess is Heart Failure.
    Regardless of her reasons for falling, apparently she is not physically fit for the presidency.
    Nor was she at the time of her nomination.

    And I :ignore: still maintain, :blahblah: Hillary's loss was Hillary. Not the Russians, or Comey, or the DNC.
    Hillary like Romney made the mistake of writing off too many voters and concentrating on hers'.
    Romney should have worked the Welfare vote.
    Hillary should have worked the Hearland vote.

    Moi :oldman:

    r > g

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    Finance :flagus: Healthcare
     
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    So you're saying the electorate wanted change, and didn't care at all about what kind of change it was?
     
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    More or less that was the case. It will be the case when the GOP gets ground down in 2020 too.
     
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    I'm saying that it was one of several reasons why she lost. IMHO it's a tie between her complete inability to run a campaign and the fact that no one likes her that kept her from the win - I'd put the voters wanting change at third or fourth place personally, with her deplorables comment around there as well.

    I've said it elsewhere, she ought to have won. She had the press, Hollywood, the elites, most of the rich, all the major newspapers, all the talking heads, and the experience, such as it was, on her side. But she underestimated how much people really don't like her.
     
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    So you are an outsider looking in. There are some brits on this site too.

    None of you live in the US so you only know what you hear on BBC, CNN, MSNBC and RT and other media with an anti-Trump agenda.

    In truth, unless you live in a country you have no way of knowing what happens on the ground any more than we would know what happens on the ground in London, or Moscow.

    In addition to expounding on subjects they know nothing about , brits like to rhyme things so I combined the two to came up with "Nit Wit Brit Crits".

    That sums them up in a few words.

    You I will guess are a " Fussin' Russian Who's Not Blushin'
     
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    Due to her blood clots, she's almost certainly on blood thinners.

    All of that falling, outside of whatever else is going on could be catastrophic for her.
     
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    It very well can be. IMHO, rallies rarely win over voters. They energize supporters. There were massive rallies for Obama and Trump, and I don't recall ever hearing someone say they were going to go to the rally to hear the candidate out and weigh their options - anyone I know who went to a rally was a supporter. But there seems to be some correlation between these rallies and base turnout. There is also, of course, some correlation between the rallies and fundraising, but in this age with superdonors, rallies seem to have a somewhat limited effect on donations.
     
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    I'm an American born and bred, can you PLEASE tell me what in these last few posts gave you the impression I was not? I've had other posters say that and it really strikes me as strange. Do you really think anyone not worshipping at the feet of the God-Emperor is a furriner or what?
     
  22. Aleksander Ulyanov

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    Is there anyone even possibly more unlikeable than Trump? The man is in the dictionary next to the phrase "petty, mean and vindictive". Fer crissake he went to a ROAST and was STILL just mean rather than mean and funny.
     
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    Thanks Berniebots. If Hillary had won we would be at war with Russia right now.
     
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    The Clinton obsessives prefer to fantasize that, if the candidate that 2.9 million Americans had preferred had won, America would be even worse off than it is under Trumpery - just as Clinton enthusiasts are free to imagine how much better her presidency would had been for the US.

    Yes, Trump's approval numbers have been the worst ever at each stage of his tenure, but there is nothing to stop anyone from pretending that Clinton's would be trailing the ebola virus by double digits.

    Such is the allure of idle speculation, besides which such self-serving musing affords a desperately-needed diversion for the cheerleaders of their hapless messiah.

    They love their mendacious narcissist almost as much as he loves himself, and are very, very upset that the Republican Senate and House are impotent in passing any piece of major legislation, and the Trump Justice Department's Special Counsel, and various Republican-run congressional investigative committees, seem so concerned about Putin's perverting a US election to place Trump where he wants him.

    Naturally, for hardcore Trumpies, an alternative reality in which Clinton surrenders international primacy and makes the United States into a pariah nation, joining Syria's Assad in spurning the global community, is far more "PC."
     
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    Hillary was 6% ahead for most of the election and was so just days before the election however at the end it all fell apart. She won the election by 3 million votes but lost the election because she lost those three states by tiny margins. I guess if she had visited those areas more instead of trying to go into Trump territory to solidify her win she might be president today. Also if she had payed by the rules when secretary of state and beyond her approval wouldn't have slipped like this placing Trump within striking distance of her.
     
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