Posted on 12/14/2016 10:17:32 AM PST by Uncle Miltie
The MSM and others are madly spinning "Why Hillary Lost".
Here's a handy list with citations of reasons they have come up with so far! Feel free to add others you may find in your own posting below, so that we can demonstrate the hundreds of actors to blame for Hillary's loss.
It couldn't be a corrupt candidate running on failed ideas! So have some fun...
1. Comey and the FBI
2. The Electoral College
3. Campaign Staff
4. Social Media (“Fake News”)
5. Racist/Sexist/Homophobic/Xenophobic Voters
6. Talk Radio
7. Missed Pivot to Jobs
8. Rigged Primaries
9. Trump’s Blue-Collar strategy
10. Clinton is unlikeable
11. Millenials’ low turnout
12. The working class divide
13. Winning three elections in a row is difficult
14. This was a major change election
15. Clinton never effectively explained why she was running
16. Clinton ran a scorched earth negative campaign featuring lots of screaming
17. Clinton chose Basket Case America over Normal America
18. Clinton is corrupt
19. Middle class angst
20. Rejection of Washington gridlock
21. Anti-Clinton sentiment (both Clintons)
22. Populist nationalism
23. Not Having a Memorable Slogan
24. She Didn’t Actually Tweet Herself
25. 0bamaCare
26. 0bama
27. Bill
28. WikiLeaks
29. Clinton is part of the Establishment
30. MSM Liked Clinton
31. Libertarians sucked votes from Clinton
32. Bernie
33. Russians
34. DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ AND THE DNC
She is always trying to blame everyone else for her crimes. In reality, she has no one to blame but herself.
You forgot Blue Meanies.
35. The democratic platform (Abortion, Homosexual issues such as gay marriage, Attacks on the coal industry, etc.)
Hillary ran up the score (popular vote) in states where it didn’t matter. And did nothing to protect her presumed lead in the "blue wall” states which did matter.
Politics
Clinton Wins Fewer Electoral Votes Than Any Dem Since 1988
November 10, 2016 | by Oren Peleg
Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton may have won the popular vote in the 2016 election — and by an incredibly slim margin — but her electoral vote is one of the lowest in recent history. Having won over 60 million votes (50.12 percent of the popular vote), Clinton gained only 228 electoral votes — the lowest for any Democrat since Michael Dukakis ran in 1988.
“This is the worst Democratic performance in the electoral college since Dukakis 88,” Chuck Todd, a news anchor for NBC, tweeted on Nov. 9.
According to 270ToWin, Dukakis, who ran against Vice President George H. W. Bush, garnered only 111 electoral votes. Bush picked up 426 votes — only 270 are needed to become president.
However, unlike Clinton, Dukakis lost the popular vote by nearly 7 million votes.
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But do not expect the Electoral College to disappear tomorrow.
“I think if elections continue as they are, I think the Electoral College is here to stay,” John Hudak of the Brookings Institution said, reports CBS News. “I think that a couple of elections close together where the popular vote loser is the Electoral College winner, I think you’ll start to see much more movement on that.”
“I know that over the past 200 years, there have been dozens and dozens of proposals to do it and it hasn’t happened so far,” Hans A. von Spakovsky of the Heritage Foundation added.
Clinton is now the fifth presidential candidate in history to win the popular vote, yet lose the electoral vote. The closest previous case was Al Gore’s loss to George W. Bush in 2000, notes NPR.
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/politics/clinton-wins-fewer-electoral-votes-any-democrat-dukakis
And when you look at the margins by which she lost Michigan, Pennsylvania, or Wisconsin, she barely lost in spite of all those factors. If she can barely lose in spite of all those factors, Trump would have had zero chance against a Democrat candidate with better health and more energy.
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