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The Real Reasons Why Hillary Clinton Lost In 2016
Investor's Business Daily ^ | 5/1/2017 | Staff

Posted on 05/02/2017 3:48:55 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer

Election 2016: It took a lot of numbers-crunching, but Democratic Party pooh-bahs say they now know why Hillary Clinton lost: Many of the "base" voters she counted on in Blue States didn't show up, and switched to Donald Trump instead. It took them nearly six months to figure out the blindingly obvious, but it still doesn't get at the truth.

The findings of a poll and focus groups conducted by Priorities USA for the Democratic Party advisory firm Global Strategy Group were devastating not just for Hillary Clinton, but for Democrats as a whole: It found that many former supporters of President Obama flipped and voted for Donald Trump instead of Hillary Clinton.

For Democrats, it should be disquieting that the findings completely contradict their own carefully-managed self-image as champions of the underdog: Some 50% of those who voted for Obama and then defected to Trump said their incomes are lagging behind the cost of living, while another 31% said they were just treading water, the Washington Post's The Plum Line blog noted.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bloggers; clinton; trump
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1 posted on 05/02/2017 3:48:55 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
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The article misses the point entirely.

It does not mention Hillary’s grating voice or lifetime of demonstrable criminal activity and pathological lies.


2 posted on 05/02/2017 3:58:27 AM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Eddie01

The Rats seem to think with the right marketing and packaging they can sell anything.


3 posted on 05/02/2017 3:59:27 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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Go to YouTube and take a look/listen to the fake news internet cast by Katie Couric from Yahoo. More than perhaps any other election night mainstream coverage does this one exemplify the arrogance of the left.

The “Republican” on the panel was some woman who headed up a “Never Trump” PAC. Frank Luntz dropped by, apparently unexpectedly, and told Katie that after tonight, he was going to no longer be a Republican...or words to that effect.

They had gone so far over the edge of Hitlery worship and Trump hatred it wasn’t funny....at the time. In retrospect of course their haughtiness is hilarious.

They even had a group of school kids standing on a US map. The kids’ job was to color in the states as Katie called them. Every single one of the 15-20 kids were wearing BLUE shirts.

Such bias.


4 posted on 05/02/2017 4:07:43 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Eddie01

“It does not mention Hillary’s grating voice or lifetime of demonstrable criminal activity and pathological lies.”

Nor does it mention that she waged an anti-white race-baiting campaign, loosing not only white men, but their daughters, wives and sisters.


5 posted on 05/02/2017 4:12:12 AM PDT by euram
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To: wastoute

>>The Rats seem to think with the right marketing and packaging they can sell anything.

Sadly, they can - 50% of people have a below average IQ and they only need a couple of %’s more gullible people to that will vote for more free stuff.


6 posted on 05/02/2017 4:13:44 AM PDT by ISTHISONETAKEN
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Ha! The focus group reasons that Hilary lost because people voted for Trump instead of her. That is some deep analysis!


7 posted on 05/02/2017 4:13:45 AM PDT by Flick Lives
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She is a deplorable person. She lies all of the time, stole every penny she has, a line of bodies the length of the Trail of Tears, and had no message.


8 posted on 05/02/2017 4:30:46 AM PDT by castlegreyskull
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The movement away from the Democrats was fun while it lasted. It is over now that the Republicans have produced this disgusting budget. The Republicans have offended their base worse than the Democrats have offended theirs.


9 posted on 05/02/2017 4:31:34 AM PDT by djpg
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Obola won...twice...*because* of his race,not *despite* it,as many “progressives” claim.If ILLary had been anything but white she would have won.Ours is a victimhood society today meaning that anyone who claims any kind of victimhood is automatically assumed to be virtuous and,thus,worthy of support.
10 posted on 05/02/2017 4:34:35 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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She was ill.

Her campaign message was that she was not Donald Trump.

She totally disregarded the white, middle class voters.

And the list grows too long to post.

11 posted on 05/02/2017 4:42:36 AM PDT by NYer ("You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears." James 4:14)
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She is arrogant and stupid - a deadly combination.


12 posted on 05/02/2017 4:45:04 AM PDT by Flag_This (Liberals are locusts.)
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To: Eddie01

I’d say that many of Hillary’s traditional base in the working class finally saw her for what she is (not a pretty sight).


13 posted on 05/02/2017 4:46:10 AM PDT by JimSEA
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There may be some truth to this but I fully support those who say the Ds
* Didn’t go far enough left (next time have had a commie flag on stage)
* Didn’t attack whites, Christians, and men enough (both verbally and physically)
* Didn’t focus enough on womens’ rights (should perform an abortion on stage at the convention)
* Didn’t support radical Islam enough (should run the campaign according to sharia and stone an LGBTQD or woman on stage)
* Didn’t support illegals enough (should have the campaign run entirely by low paid illegals)

“Leaders” like Warren and Ellison have so many “good” ideas that will guarantee Trump another win. I hope Ds don’t decide to pay attention to these “bad” ideas. /s


14 posted on 05/02/2017 4:53:53 AM PDT by LostPassword
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At a debate Hillary Clinton forgot it was revealed that week how she hired thugs to cause violence at Trump rallies. At the end of the debate she accused Donald Trump of having violence at his rallies. Also during that debate she answered some questions with correct answers but from different questions. The questioners must have gotten out of sequence.


15 posted on 05/02/2017 4:57:59 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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It found that many former supporters of President Obama flipped and voted for Donald Trump instead of Hillary Clinton.

The Bolshekrats cannot see voters did not want a third term of Obummer.

The mystery the Bolshies should try to solve is, why jOkeass got a second term?

16 posted on 05/02/2017 5:03:27 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (60 in '18.)
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because she was a B&tch everyone hated?

na....


17 posted on 05/02/2017 5:31:21 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Make America Great Again !)
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“Many of the “base” voters she counted on in Blue States didn’t show up, and switched to Donald Trump instead. ..”

I didn’t show up AND I voted for Trump.

Exquisite writing on display here...


18 posted on 05/02/2017 5:31:30 AM PDT by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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Hillary didn't lose much of Obama's 2012 Voters

From what I saw, she lost only like 100,000+ voters from what 2012 Obama got

The voters came out for Hillary just not in the right places

19 posted on 05/02/2017 5:33:36 AM PDT by KavMan
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Useless nonsense. Do we really think this rag is a news source?

They just can’t bring themselves to say that Trump worked harder with the right message


20 posted on 05/02/2017 5:35:54 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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