“Dirty tricks” aside, too many people voted for Obama. The real question is why so many voted for him.
In the suburbs in Virginia it was white guilt. Plus guilt in general since the plush jobs come from the government, those people think nothing of giving more federal money away to the "less fortunate". In the mainly conservative parts of Virginia we have a lot of stupid people. People who should know better either staying home or some voting straight D ticket.
Lots of reasons. He was black. He was a Dem. He was from Chicago. He was not a Bush. He was supposed to make Islamist peaceful. Etc. Etc. They will vote for Hillary for same reasons except she is a women not a black. The American general population is pretty much a lost cause locked into a federal debt load impossible to pay off. Only a revolution can save em now.