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This is the sixth article in a series that reviews news coverage of the 2016 general election, explores how Donald Trump won and why his chances were underrated by the most of the American media.
1 posted on 02/06/2017 7:07:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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IMO, it boiled down to the American male, He just got sick of this insolent woman crap. Men built this country and men will save this country.


2 posted on 02/06/2017 7:12:33 PM PST by WENDLE (Trump RULES IMMIGRATION!! Sanctuary crap will STOP or no money. ZERO!!)
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Hillary took off almost the whole month of August....it did not go unnoticed.


3 posted on 02/06/2017 7:15:54 PM PST by LongWayHome
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Hillary campaigned as hard as she could and it almost killed her. If she had done anything more she would have self destructed. People were on to the body doubles so she really couldn’t use them.


4 posted on 02/06/2017 7:16:46 PM PST by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR)
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Dems had too much faith in the strength of their “blue wall”. Now that they see that they don’t enjoy the electoral advantage they thought they enjoyed, the electoral college is racist and unfair and we need a direct popular vote.


5 posted on 02/06/2017 7:16:50 PM PST by RC one (The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
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I think it was because they underestimated him. I hope that is the case now with this judicial coup.


6 posted on 02/06/2017 7:17:06 PM PST by JoSixChip (Cruz <- sleaze; Clinton <- criminal; Trump <- winner)
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The Dems perfected black-box AND paper ballot fraud in 2012. Our side was shocked to lose.

The world then ordered the software for THEIR elections, and were not in the least concerned DJT would win. They’d based their future globalist plans on zero’s vote fraud regimen.

The whole planet was shocked when the vote fraud didn’t ‘fix in’. James O’Keefe got to the coders who design screens for the thousands of precincts that use them. He exposed them, and their code didn’t get loaded. The layers of plausible deniability explains why HRC, zero, and the world Left couldn’t know that the fraud was intercepted, and fell apart.


10 posted on 02/06/2017 7:58:07 PM PST by txhurl (The LEFT are screaming at the Tsunami, and the Sky, trying to set fire to the Ocean- S.Tom)
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she lost the general election in 2016 for the same reason that she lost the dem nomination in 2008; she played to not lose, and was beaten by an opponent that ran an aggressive, innovative campaign.


11 posted on 02/06/2017 7:58:46 PM PST by JohnBrowdie
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There’s ALWAYS an implication in these articles that Hillary dropping into a state will increase her numbers.

While that was certainly true with Trump, given his supporters (i.e., it’s difficult to see anyone leave a Trump rally without being willing to go out of their way to vote for him) I always wondered about that with Hillary.

Perhaps their internal polling showed that it’s better to simply flood the airwaves with air-brushed commercials, than to force Working Class men to have to confront the raw deal...and so, they kept her out of those areas.

If I’m right, eventually someone will spill that...but it may be a while.


12 posted on 02/06/2017 8:13:19 PM PST by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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So much was said about Hillary’s “ground game,” but as it turned out, the far smarter and more strategically adept ground-game effort was Trump’s.


13 posted on 02/06/2017 8:16:16 PM PST by ScottinVA ( Liberals' agony is my entertainment.)
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Well if it helps if the democraps are not telling lies and believing their own lies and faked polls. The reason Hillary did not campaign in WI (and much of MI) is because they believed their own lies and thought they had it in the bag.


14 posted on 02/06/2017 8:17:18 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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Wait!!! Water is wet?


15 posted on 02/06/2017 8:20:57 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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With the way Scott Walker handled the ‘rats and unions in Wisconsin over the last several years - winning how many recall votes and putting unparalleled limits on the unions - I wasn’t surprised at all that it went Republican in 2016.....


19 posted on 02/06/2017 8:51:40 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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CAPTAIN OBVIOUS STRIKES AGAIN!!!!


21 posted on 02/06/2017 8:54:23 PM PST by fightin kentuckian
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“Donald Trump Had A Superior Electoral College Strategy”

Captain Nate “No Path To 270”” Silver had decided being Captain Obvious was a safer way to go.


26 posted on 02/06/2017 9:40:12 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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Hillary had a window of only several hours a day, from mid-day to early evening, when her Levodopa medication was effective to keep her alert and functional.

If her doctors tried to overmedicate her to extend the time for her to do campaign events, then the side effects could cause seizures or other conditions.

Remember after the NY/NJ Muslim sidewalk bombs, and Hillary had to emerge from the cabin in her plane to make a statement to the press late in the evening? She was unable to muster anything more than a zombie-like mumble.

And when they had her attend an early-morning memorial on the anniversary of 9/11, she left before it was over and still ended up having a seizure before they could manage to get her loaded into her van.

There was no way she could have done much more in the way of campaigning.


31 posted on 02/06/2017 11:12:18 PM PST by Meet the New Boss
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It was Pennsylvania that put Trump over the top!😀
33 posted on 02/06/2017 11:39:02 PM PST by Ciexyz (Happy days are here again, with Trump/Pence!)
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5-3-8 is a fake news site trying to stay relevant


38 posted on 02/07/2017 1:50:12 AM PST by vooch
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538 is lying badly--

Clinton made a couple of mistakes, meanwhile. So did campaign reporters, who usually lauded Clinton’s strategy while maligning Trump’s, making essentially the same errors that the Clinton campaign did.

The reporters _were_ part of the Clinton campaign. The Podesta emails exposed that simple reality.

538 needs to stop the lying--or they need to find more people stupid enough to believe them. :-(
39 posted on 02/07/2017 2:12:29 AM PST by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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I will credit Nate Silver for dealing with the fact that the Electoral College determines the outcome of the election (and that Trump was focused like a laser beam on the Electoral College while Hillary was not.

But he misses the point. The point is polls indicated a majority of Americans prefer less government to more. Consistent with this, the election showed a majority favored Trump + Johnson + McMullin + lesser conservative candidates; and, that the Republicans won the nationwide popular vote in the Congressional races.

To show how crazy the vote in California was, the combined center-right vote versus the combined center-left vote would have won all the Trump states PLUS: ME (at large), NH, MN, NM, CO and NV. An electoral college landslide.


40 posted on 02/07/2017 3:03:05 AM PST by Redmen4ever
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They still won’t admit that the reason Hillary lost is....no one likes her!
She could’ve campaigned her heart out in those states and still lost.


44 posted on 02/07/2017 7:59:14 AM PST by sheana
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