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DNC Staff: Arrogance Cost Clinton the Election
U.S. News & World Report ^ | November 11, 2016 | David Catanese

Posted on 11/11/2016 5:08:47 PM PST by righttackle44

On Thursday, Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta, held a conference call with devastated staffers that put the rosiest possible frame on a calamitous picture.

The message to the dozens of mostly young, sleep-deprived and shell-shocked aides: We did everything we could have. We wouldn't have changed a thing. You should still be proud.

Inside the Democratic National Committee headquarters, which sits half a mile south of the U.S. Capitol, eyes rolled and heads shook in frustration and disbelief.

Clinton's loss at the hands of Donald Trump amounted to the most surprising outcome in the history of modern electoral politics. Of course things could've been done differently. And ignoring that fact wasn't going to make the searing defeat any easier.

"We are pissed at them and state parties are pissed at them because they lost due to arrogance," a top DNC staffer tells U.S. News, sharing the candid sentiment suffusing the high levels of the committee in exchange for anonymity.

(Excerpt) Read more at usnews.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: campaign; clinton; clintontoblame; dnc; hate; hillary; hillarylost; politics
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To: smileyface

Oh yeah....I’ll sit still for that.


61 posted on 11/11/2016 5:40:34 PM PST by Liz (Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: RummyChick

Thanks for the link. I have not been following the news from Dutch sources, but will look at some others as well. German newspapers are very anti-Trump.


62 posted on 11/11/2016 5:40:52 PM PST by Dragonfly
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To: smileyface

I’m still giddy about the win!!! Excuse my happy posting!

Tomorrow nite, Trump Victory Cookout at my house! I still didn’t take my yard signs down. How annoying! And I put smileyface yellow balloons on my Hillary for Prison signs.

Again, how annoying!!!


63 posted on 11/11/2016 5:41:38 PM PST by smileyface (Things looking up in RED PA!)
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To: righttackle44

Her phoniness, arrogance, hypocritical, lying fat ass is what did it. We won! Now go back to your mansion we bought and STFU!


64 posted on 11/11/2016 5:42:42 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Liz

Oh yeah....I’ll sit still for that.


Dream big!

(still smiling!)


65 posted on 11/11/2016 5:44:11 PM PST by smileyface (Things looking up in RED PA!)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
She couldn’t believe she wasn’t up 50 points, can’t get any more arrogant than that.

She actually believes, absolutely, that loud, hysterical repetition is actually an effective tool for "persuasion."

It never has been, never will be, never can be. But her personality will permanently reject the obvious.

If that doesn't confirm insanity...

66 posted on 11/11/2016 5:44:21 PM PST by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: Eddie01

Party of Lenin; Iron Discipline.


67 posted on 11/11/2016 5:46:33 PM PST by henkster (Clinton delenda est)
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To: righttackle44

Finally they get something right.....


68 posted on 11/11/2016 5:48:32 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: MayflowerMadam

White Women-—YES


69 posted on 11/11/2016 5:49:16 PM PST by uncbob
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To: lodi90

That, and she phoned it in. She never really campaigned, whereas Trump hit 4 or 5 cities a day.


70 posted on 11/11/2016 5:49:22 PM PST by Hardastarboard (Freedom Trumps Fascism)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Yeah, but I had to shudder at the quality of whackjobs they are looking to take the reins.


71 posted on 11/11/2016 5:51:21 PM PST by dforest
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To: blackdog

That’s one of the greatest sentences I’ve heard! Bravo.


72 posted on 11/11/2016 5:51:35 PM PST by namvolunteer (Obama says the US is subservient to the UN and the Constitution does not apply. That is treason.)
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To: lodi90
Not really. Her age and health did her in. She was just not physically able to campaign hard. Never visited Wisconsin, etc.

That only reinforces the diagnosis of insanity displayed via the unbelievable arrogance.

She always had to have the last word; in the end that saved us all, and perhaps our republic too.

73 posted on 11/11/2016 5:52:59 PM PST by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: righttackle44

I believe the DNC itself is to blame as well.

The protesters, if they were not counterfeit, and had an ounce of integrity, would be going after and rejecting their own corrupt party.

The DNC rigged their primary just like the GOP tried to do to their own. We rejected that and nominated Trump in spite of it.

And yes, hilzebub is arrogant beyond belief. The DNC doesn’t really care about that though. They’re trying to distance themselves from the ugly truth that they fouled it up.

You could almost feel sorry for hilzebub. They will lay everything off on her in the end.

Maybe they should just shitcan Saul’s moldy old tome and find another strategy.

The DNC just shoved hilzebub down everyone’s throat anyway so they’re more corrupt than the GOP.


74 posted on 11/11/2016 5:55:28 PM PST by Califreak (All Alinsky All The Time)
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To: Eddie01

I know it won’t happen but if they want to know what happened they need to shut down D.C. Turn it into a museum of things that were. Send all the reps and senators back to their home states and let them mingle with real people for a change. Let them deal with real people banging on their doors Day in and day out instead of lobbyists. That’s the only way they’ll ever get it.


75 posted on 11/11/2016 5:56:46 PM PST by sheana
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To: smileyface

Okay.


76 posted on 11/11/2016 5:57:41 PM PST by Liz (Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: righttackle44

Arrogance? Maybe.
To me, their biggest failing is that they believe their own propaganda - and that put them at a great disadvantage.
In all contests, be it politics, the sports field, or war, you have to know your competitor/enemy.


77 posted on 11/11/2016 6:00:14 PM PST by Mr Radical (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

And it crept into our party. So many “Republicans For Hillary” - Pantsuit Nation, for example. Organizing a Million Mom March on 1/21.


78 posted on 11/11/2016 6:00:43 PM PST by EnquiringMind
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To: righttackle44

The American public finally realized it was being screwed over by the Washington establishment.

The American public decided to fight back. End of story.


79 posted on 11/11/2016 6:01:27 PM PST by Ticonderoga34
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To: Califreak
pelosi photo: Nancy Pelosi 42-19138320.jpg

Don't forget Pelosi.

She's a relentless rainmaker that gets massive quantities of donations.

In return for her largess, no democrat is allowed to be to the right of her and get any funding, no matter what their constituency.

80 posted on 11/11/2016 6:01:59 PM PST by Snickering Hound
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