What Close election?
What office is Glenn seeking?
Posted on 12/12/2016 12:26:53 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Democratic strategist Joe Trippi had an interesting insight into a problem currently faced by Democrats as they seek to rebuild their brand and win future elections. Because the election was so close, with Trump winning three swing states by a total of about 80,000 votes, it’s impossible to sort out which factors really mattered in Clinton’s loss.
As Trippi points out, Democrats can point to almost any explanation, from Russian hacking to Bernie Sanders to explain the 2016 loss, which means different factions of the party have very different views about what to do next. From the Hill:
Trippi also saw a danger for the party, in that virtually any explanation for why Clinton lost is plausible, given the narrowness of the margin.
“Everybody can point to something that went wrong — and they’re right,” he said. “It makes it impossible to know what the party really needs to do.
“The [Bernie] Sanders people believe, if only we had been more populist we’d have won, and they’re right. The Hillary people believe, if only Bernie hadn’t attacked her so hard in the primary we’d have won, and they’re right. Everybody’s right.”
Trippi hasn’t come close to exhausting the possible explanations. Recall that Clinton communications strategist Jennifer Palmieri recently accused the Trump camp of winning because of appeals to the alt-right. Palmieri told her opposites in the Trump campaign, “I would rather lose than win the way you guys did.”
Then there’s the claim from some Clintonistas that the media is at fault in any number of ways. Some, including President Obama, have claimed the media was unfair to Clinton, others that it was sexist, and still others that it didn’t hold Trump to the same standard. There is also the separate but related complaint about “fake news” swaying the election. Hillary Clinton herself has even come out against that.
Or maybe it was the announcement by FBI Director James Comey that he had found a new cache of Clinton emails on a laptop belonging to Anthony Weiner which handed the election to Trump. That’s the claim being made by Senator Reid today. From CNN:
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said Monday FBI Director James Comey was “heavily involved as a partisan” in the weeks leading up to the election and that Comey’s actions handed the presidency to Donald Trump.
The retiring Nevada Democrat said Democrats “would have won the majority in the Senate and would have won the presidency but for Comey.”
Finally, there’s the Russian hacking of the DNC, DCCC and John Podesta’s email account. That seems to be the explanation that is dominating the news this week, with Clinton advisor John Podesta now siding with a group of faithless electors in calling for more information on connections between the Trump campaign and Russian hackers.
Trippi is on to something here. The Democrats have many potential villains and alternate explanations for why they lost this election. And depending on which one they believe is most directly responsible, it could lead to a very different look for the party going forward. For instance, if the problem was Sanders or 3rd party candidates the party could move toward the center. If the problem was installing Hillary as the nominee rather than backing Sanders the party could shift to the left (as it seems ready to do by giving the DNC chairmanship to Keith Ellison.) If the problem is fake news then Democrats might invest heavily in counter-programming on the left. If the problem was Russian hacking they could go all in on an effort to delegitimize Trump before he even takes office.
About the only problem Democrats don’t seem interested in exploring is the simplest one: Hillary was a terrible candidate who didn’t appeal as strongly as Obama did to minorities and who seemed to be a turn off to millennials. But why blame Hillary for her own downfall when there are so many more tantalizing external villains to choose from.
How about this: because God got tired of being shat upon by Democrats, and acted to stave off the next Tower of Babel/Soros.
I’m sure it’s a mere coincidence that the very first appearance of this “80,000 votes” narrative, was courtesy Huma Abedin’s sister on Twitter.
The vast left-wing loony tunes.
Then IF she didn't setup an insecure Email server for her business,
Then IF they didn't do the Quid Pro Quo's through the Clinton Foundation (especially uranium for Russia),
Then IF she didn't say she would Raise Taxes on the Middle Class,
Or IF she didn't call Americans Sexist, Racists, Homophobes, Islamaphobes,
Or a Dozen other things.
Then She Would be President
It is a dreaded Left Wing Conspiracy
Clinton and her campaign fell for the #fakenews and their #fakepolls. That’s why she figured she could only have 54 rallies in the 100 days leading up to the election, as opposed to Trump’s 129 rallies. She was a fat, lazy, egotistical candidate who thought that she didn’t have to actually work for votes, just that she was entitled to votes.
Since when is 68 electoral votes close?
Mark my words: Michael Jackson is behind all this. You’ll see
DNC denied God three times, then Clinton crowed.
The keyword in your dissertation Mr. Spock is "loss".
It’s not. Especially for a Republican in the new demographics of this country thanks to the left.
GWB never got to 300 EV both times.
DJT flipped THREE states that haven’t been red for almost 30 years. This was NOT close especially when you look at the other races. The dims only picked up what..one seat in the senate? They’ll lost more house seats in two years too if they keep up this crap.
Look at all the results not just the EC 306 for DJT.
It was not close at all.
I agree with your analysis.
This was a pleasant surprise when I worked it up a few weeks back.
We have the White House, the U.S. Senate, and the House of Representatives at the federal level.
Here’s the breakdown on the states.
There’s a lot of information there...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3495919/posts
Hey dipshit, ever heard of “Occam’s Razor” - that philosophy that holds that the simplest explanation is probably the correct one?
The reason is that the Democrat Party nominated, as a candidate for president, the most unlikeable, entitled, out-of-touch, dishonest and corrupt candidate that they could find. And whaddya know, she lost!
If 20,000 votes flipped in the right proportions in Hawaii and Ohio, Ford would have beaten Carter in electoral votes in 1976. You didn’t see Ford raising a big stink. Nor did Nixon with the fix in Chicago and Texas in 1960.
Well, let’s try it this way- someone in the CIA (unnamed)says the Russians hacked he election. That is false. The election machines can not be hacked. They told us that long ago. They are tamper proof.
Someone did hack the DNC servers, for over a year-inability to handle documents securely once again. The unnamed source gave no details, so we don’t know if there is proof, of anything. It’s speculation and hearsay, and put out there to distract from the seriousness of the charges and the guilt for dirty deeds.
If the electors are going to have a meeting over who provided the emails, then they should also have one informing them of her crimes.
All electors should be informed of her actions before they vote. The electors who are pledged to her, should vote for a more honest candidate.
An ambassador from the UK stated he knows who did it and it wasn’t the Russians-it was an inside job.
Julian offered a reward for the person who killed Seth Rich, so it might have been Seth. Napolitano says it was the NSA. Clintons classified documents spilled the beans, exposed some agents, who had to run for their lives, and some didn’t make it and were killed. Julian said that it wasn’t the Russians.
I didn’t read it because, I knew I wasn’t voting for her. She said that the emails should be out there and all should be available. So I looked at them. Jesse Jackson immediately said that Obama should pardon her, whatever is there is a crime and she is guilty or she wouldn’t nee to be pardoned.
Close election? Trump won in a landslide with 2600 Counties going for Trump and only 420 voting for HRC.
It was a total blowout. The cities are cesspools of liberalism which should be discounted even less than they already are.
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