Posted on 02/12/2017 7:07:26 AM PST by xp38
Yeah. Even if she knew she lost, I can believe she wasn’t in the proper frame to give a worthy concession speech.
When Podesta came out and told the crowd that there would be no announcement that night, that votes were still being counted, and there would be an announcement late the following moment, I figured Trump was up in the count and would be declared the winner if Team Clinton didn’t call in their favors and pull some 2000-style re-re-recount shenanigans.
I was imagining the Clintons and their dirty-tricks advisors going all-out on spending money and twisting arms in the hours remaining until they finally spoke to the press. I fully expected her to come out with a grin and announce that late returns in Michigan and Pennsylvania gave her a narrow victory.
I too thought that she may have been strategizing to pull off a sneaky cheat win. Until Trump came on. Then I believed she was incoherent and wailing and swearing.
Very disingenuous yet amusing how libs insist one of the factors in Hillary’s defeat was sexism...uh, MI has a female senator, Debbie Stabenow, as well as governor, Jennifer Granholm; and WI has senator Tammy Baldwin. Funny how this “sexism” only was against Hillary yet not any of those women *rolls eyes*
Yea I remember Newt saying that as well and how right that was! A whopping *150%* of Hillary’s popular vote margin came from just ONE state, CA, which is very unhealthy and shows how weak and localized her margin was and why a big deal is rightfully made that it came overwhelmingly and ridiculously from 1 state...compare and contrast that to the largest of Obama in ‘12 and Bush in ‘04 margins being just 60% from 1 state, CA and TX respectively, and the rest coming from other states which juxtaposes how much more spread out and broad their support was compared to hers.
Total, absolute B.S.
She was so not surprised she had to send Podesta out to LIE to her supporters about ‘tomorrow.’ These people have absolutely NO shame. None at all. They just make stuff up knowing their supporters are overall too damned stupid to know they’re being lied to. Or, those with a modicum of intelligence choose not to know.
Considering she was begging for ghetto votes in Philly shortly before the election while Trump was venturing out into Dem states indicates to me that she knew she was in danger; for all the talk about how the “blue wall” hadn’t voted for Republicans since the 1980s, she was campaigning in PA (not even in suburbs, but the hardcore slums). She knew there was a good chance she’d lose.
Yes.
I was thinking that if the Hillary people knew days or a week or more before the election that she was in jeopardy they would have rushed her to do some campaigning in Ohio, Michigan, maybe Wisconsin, etc. in addition to PA.
If the Trump campaign had polls showing they could win those mid-west states you would think that the Hillary campaign saw it too.
OTOH - Maybe Hillary’s health condition was so bad that she couldn’t handle the strain of a heavy travel/campaign schedule.
No way. I saw the video of BJ jumping up and down like a school boy in anticipation of all the inters he thought would be available to him upon her coronation. She KNEW she was going to win.
I believe that was exactly the problem; she was sending out proxies because she has serious health issues. Just by being in Philly meant she knew PA was a toss-up; the media saw the same thing but kept it to themselves rather than state the obvious.
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