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2016 Election: Bob Shrum Fails to Credit Himself for Hillary Overconfidence
Newsbusters ^ | October 20, 2017 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 10/20/2017 4:25:06 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

The Eddie Mush of politics, Bob Shrum, has written an article in the October 19 America magazine attempting to explain how Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election. Among the big reasons Shrum cites was overconfidence to the extent that the Hillary campaign declined to even poll the battleground states in the final weeks of the election. 

Shrum rather incompletely attributes her overconfidence to a heavy reliance upon data analytics without mentioning that it was also probably due to almost all media pundits, including a certain someone very familiar to the author, predicting an absolutely certain Hillary victory:

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bobshrum; election2016; hillaryclinton
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Bob Shrum is a modern example of why the ancient Greeks feared to incur the wrath of the gods by displaying hubris.
1 posted on 10/20/2017 4:25:06 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix

No amount of polling could have fixed Hillary.


2 posted on 10/20/2017 4:30:26 PM PDT by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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Has this guy ever accurately picked the winner of an election?
3 posted on 10/20/2017 4:36:33 PM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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I never get tired of reading this stuff. They were so arrogant, so sure... It’s as much fun as watching the talking heads explode the night of the election!


4 posted on 10/20/2017 4:39:26 PM PDT by luv2ski
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explain how Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election

The Delusional Lying Left is so far out of touch with America and her values that they'll probably NEVER know why they lost in 2016, and why they will lose in 202 AND MOST IMPORTANTLY in 2024.

5 posted on 10/20/2017 4:40:37 PM PDT by Jim W N
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I’m going to watch the MSNBC election night coverage replay this weekend just so I can laugh again!!


6 posted on 10/20/2017 4:42:18 PM PDT by WeWaWes (When I look in the mirror I see an elephant--a bad ass elephant)
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They were so arrogant, so sure...

Yes, and coompare their arrogance to the quote below from "The Russian Revolution" by Alan Moorehead 1958

"…but the fact remained that this was a predatory state which the Czar and a small group of noblemen and bureaucrats ruled for their own exclusive benefit...The ruling group owned all the wealth, enjoyed all the privileges and monopolized all the political power, and it did not intend to give up any of its prerogatives. It considered the peasants to be little better than animals..."

7 posted on 10/20/2017 4:45:37 PM PDT by libertylover (Kurt Schlicter: "They wonder why they got Trump. They are why they got Trump")
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I wonder if there will be network specials on TV this November 8 on the first anniversary of the Second American Revolution.


8 posted on 10/20/2017 4:48:01 PM PDT by PJ-Comix (Waiting for 2024 Total Eclipse)
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Ha! Great videos.
The 2nd one makes Scaramucci look like a genius, all the while they’re ridiculing him for his loyalty to Trump.


9 posted on 10/20/2017 5:06:48 PM PDT by GnuThere
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Schrum is an idiot ...


10 posted on 10/20/2017 5:16:00 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth ( Freep u, Schmucky)
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"I’m going to watch the MSNBC election night coverage replay this weekend just so I can laugh again!!"

Some nights I have trouble sleeping so I YouTube election night coverage from all of the Alphabet networks.

It hasn't grown old.

11 posted on 10/20/2017 5:39:17 PM PDT by SnuffaBolshevik
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Bob Shrum holds the Guinness book of records highest honor for directing over 100 major democrat campaigns without tasting victory. No one in the annals of history can come close to his stunning achievement. Despite his epic failures the man is brimming with hubris and arrogance.


12 posted on 10/20/2017 5:40:38 PM PDT by Kahuna
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13 posted on 10/20/2017 5:40:57 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (You can't have totalitarian globalist government if the peasants are armed.)
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The level of hubris is unbelievable. And yet they say Trump is conceited!


14 posted on 10/20/2017 5:44:38 PM PDT by rb22982
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Shrum is an expert on losing. We all hope he runs the key Democrat campaigns in 2018 and 2020.


15 posted on 10/20/2017 5:48:09 PM PDT by spintreebob
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LoL. Shrump is about zero for forever in presidential elections he’s been involved in.


16 posted on 10/20/2017 5:53:39 PM PDT by Red Steel
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let us hope he is involved in the 2020 race then.

Don’t think Trump will need the help, but the more the merrier.


17 posted on 10/20/2017 5:55:55 PM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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No he is the most reliable wrong-headed weathervane there is...Bet the house in the UK against any Shrum prediction.


18 posted on 10/20/2017 6:27:00 PM PDT by rod1 (CTLY)
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Shrum could start his own Biggest Loser TV series.


19 posted on 10/20/2017 6:28:22 PM PDT by rod1 (CTLY)
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we need to keep this guy around, then.


20 posted on 10/20/2017 6:31:37 PM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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