Hillary blames every one but herself for her loss.
She was a terrible, unattractive candidate. Even liberals couldn’t stand her.
Lots of reasons Hillary lost but the main one is no one was enthusiastic about her.
A normal Democrat could have won it in a walk. Not the smartest woman in the world.
Pride goes before a fall, and the Democrats were only doing what is characteristic of them now by putting up Hillary.
What was the origin of the term “Yellow Dog Democrat”? Wasn’t it Democrats who were so lockstep with the party for party’s sake, that they would vote for a yellow dog if it were on the ballot with a (D)?
Hillary was that yellow dog. I could expand on metaphorical implications, but won’t, because my point isn’t to hammer on Hillary for how bad she was. It’s to point out what fools the Democrats were for picking her, and it was out of their own pride.
Maybe after quite a long time, when they are humbled enough, they may come back to be an effective political force; but they will have to put out an objectively better showing than Donald Trump. That is going to be a high, high hurdle. Libertarians might come back first and beat the Democrats. Notice that it is the Greens not the Libertarians who are playing the frenemy game with the Democrats.
Remember late in the summer when the HRC campaign said they were going to stop running ads in VA and CO because they were so far ahead? I think this was in August. I thought they were playing mind games/bluffing. What politician thinks he/she can coast for 3 months? Apparently, they really did believe it. The arrogance is staggering. Ultimately, they did win those states, but they also ignored “the blue wall” until it was too late. Real life example of the tortoise and the hare.
‘A normal Democrat could have won it in a walk.’
Normal Democrat? Extinct. Like the dodo.
I suspect there was a sizable number of millenials who voted for third-party candidates because they assumed Hillary Clinton would win handily.
We should have seen this coming when young Democratic voters were getting all excited about a 75 year-old man who looks like my grandfather.
So true. LOL.
Hmmm ... Who would they have nominated? Tim Kaine certainly wouldn't have won if he'd been at the top of the ticket.
The "crooked Hillary" thing affected the whole shape of the campaign. If Hillary hadn't been the nominee, what would the candidates have talked about?
Would Donald Trump even have been the GOP nominee? So much of the campaign revolved around voters being sick of Clintons and Bushes. With her out of the race, that whole aspect would have been absent and the cycle would have spun off in another direction.
In any case, the people who actually got the election winner right generally based their predictions on the economy, so the Democrats had a weakness that went beyond Hillary Clinton.
Normal democrat? Like Bernie, Warren and Ellison? The dems are either pay for play establishment or hard left progressives. No more Joe Liebermans and Robert Kennedys