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Yes, you can blame millennials in Pa. and elsewhere for Clinton's loss
Wash Post via Philly.com ^ | 12/3/2016 | Aaron Blake

Posted on 12/03/2016 9:39:47 AM PST by dirtboy

Hillary Clinton's campaign has lots of excuses for losing. There's the electoral college, James Comey, the media's alleged over-exuberance in digging into Clinton's email server, etc. But Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said Thursday that one particular group is especially to blame: millennials.

As Karen Tumulty and Philip Rucker reported from the big election postmortem at Harvard on Thursday night:

Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook also acknowledged that her operation had made a number of mistakes and miscalculations, while being buffeted by what he repeatedly described as a "headwind" of being an establishment candidate in a season where voters were anxious for change.

He noted, for example, that younger voters, perhaps assuming that Clinton was going to win, migrated to third-party candidates in the final days of the race.

Where the campaign needed to win upward of 60 percent of young voters, it was able to garner something "in the high 50s at the end of the day," Mook said. "That's why we lost."

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


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blamegame; clinton; election2016; electoralcollege; hillary; hillary2016; millenials; millennials; pa2016; thirdparty; youthvote
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To: Nothingburger

Mook & Morndy?


81 posted on 12/03/2016 5:08:48 PM PST by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC (Folks ask about my politics. I say: I dont belong to any organized political party. I'm a Republican)
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To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC

LOL! Cute! :)


82 posted on 12/03/2016 5:13:07 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: catnipman
Enough HRH HRC bashing. Let's consider her good points.

For instance, I think we all can agree that Hillary has always been the best candidate money could buy.

83 posted on 12/03/2016 5:16:26 PM PST by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC (Folks ask about my politics. I say: I dont belong to any organized political party. I'm a Republican)
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To: justlurking
Well, here's one who does want to hear the name of Clinton again. But only when she is forced to live in the place these guys call home -- somewhere in Central America.

For instance, Haiti might be a good place for Hillary to do her time. I hear the locals have strong feelings for her after the exemplary job she did diverting millions in earthquake charity money into the hands of her own pockets and those of her crooked friends.


84 posted on 12/03/2016 5:20:14 PM PST by poconopundit (`)
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To: dirtboy

They just can’t come to grips with their flawed candidate.

Screwing over Bernie was the first thing that turned off democrats. What they did was horrendous.


85 posted on 12/03/2016 6:38:38 PM PST by HollyB
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To: cmt21

Then she hardly campaigned near the end


86 posted on 12/03/2016 6:45:50 PM PST by HollyB
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To: HollyB

I will always wonder if that was health related or just arrogance. Maybe she couldn’t campaign hard.


87 posted on 12/03/2016 7:54:11 PM PST by cmt21
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To: headstamp 2
Yes, Remember watching comments from one of Trump’s millennial/college outreach people saying that frequently students would sidle up to them at the end of their rallies saying they were with Trump, just had to keep it quiet.

Yes, and this is why I am ready to b*tch-slap anyone who keeps claiming that it's Trump who is the fascist. I am fed up.

I honestly can't say that I was disappointed that Obama didn't condemn the post-election violence--because I fully understand that he wanted to endorse it. He is a rabble-rousing radical who doesn't know how to govern.

88 posted on 12/03/2016 8:21:51 PM PST by Lysandru
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Fwiw, we had about a dozen write-in votes for Bernie in our precinct.


89 posted on 12/04/2016 1:51:55 AM PST by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: manc

She had lots of ‘experience’


90 posted on 12/04/2016 4:26:48 AM PST by ari-freedom (Chicken Little Concerned for Trump people are almost as annoying as NeverTrumpers!)
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To: goldstategop

Normal democrat? Like Bernie, Warren and Ellison? The dems are either pay for play establishment or hard left progressives. No more Joe Liebermans and Robert Kennedys


91 posted on 12/04/2016 4:29:41 AM PST by ari-freedom (Chicken Little Concerned for Trump people are almost as annoying as NeverTrumpers!)
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To: boycott

Again, the scariest thing is that they tried that in part (sending surrogates instead of the White Witch herself), and it ALMOST WORKED.

I guess we should have known the media can elect a president when it got Obama elected twice; he is a hollow, incompetent man who was installed via teleprompter.


92 posted on 12/04/2016 5:12:10 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2

” .... the media can elect a president when it got Obama elected twice; “


The media could have and should have derailed obama’s campaign in 2008 after the rev. Wright tapes went public. Instead, the media saved his campaign. He would have never sniffed the White House without the media.


93 posted on 12/04/2016 5:19:51 AM PST by boycott (S)
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To: boycott

Definitely; it was even worse in 2012 when he was a proven failure.

His legacy will be that he was the biggest disappointment for blacks (it was no coincidence the ethnic unrest picked up in tempo as his presidency was drawing to a close; they realized they’d been screwed), and an outright failure for non-blacks unless they were gay, wealthy, or government workers.


94 posted on 12/04/2016 5:31:45 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: dirtboy

Will these people ever just once say they had a dreadful candidate and their campaign was entirely too arrogant? Just once? And admit that Trump was highly energized and his supporters enthused against the ‘strong headwind’ of media smears 24/7?


95 posted on 12/04/2016 5:36:50 AM PST by EDINVA
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To: dirtboy

Bernie could very well have beaten Trump..... but the coronation of her heinous went ahead as planned by the dumbocrat potty.


96 posted on 12/04/2016 5:37:01 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: EDINVA
Will these people ever just once say they had a dreadful candidate and their campaign was entirely too arrogant? Just once?

The republicans did the same schlock picking of candidates in 92, 96, 08, 12 to lose

They fielded awful candidates in wining years of 88, 2000, 04. Just that the dhimmicrats fielded worse.

97 posted on 12/04/2016 5:43:31 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: justlurking

TUNE: “You’re a mean one, Mister Grinch”

You’re a mean one, Hil-la-ry.
You left Chris Stevens to die.
When Muslims took Bengazhi
You went off to catch shut -eye,
Hiillary!

You’re a top advisor
Who’s really a spy.

You’re a monster, Hil-la-ry.
You defied our policy
Using unncrtypted emails
Compromised security
Hil-lar-ry!

I wouldn’t trust you
With a sixty-four bit encryption key.

You’re a foul one, Hil-la-ry.
‘Nabling sex predator Bill
Stain a blue dress in the office
Have a cigar for a thrill
Hil-la-ry.

Given the choice between the two of you I’d take Humma for a chill.

You’re a vile one, Hil-la-ry.
You’r a nasty wasty skank.
You run down Juanita Broaddrick,
and put down Kathleen Wiley
Hil-la-ry!

The three words that best describe you are as follows, and I quote
“Stink, stunk, stank”!

You’re a rotter, Hil-la-ry.
You’re the queen of sinful sots
You’re heart’s filled with a trinity
of me, myself, I gots
Hil-la-ry!

Your soul is an appalling dump heap overflowing with the most disgraceful
Assortment of rubbish imaginable mangled up in tangled up knots!

You nauseate us, Hil-la-ry
And you disenfrachise us
Who were Bernie Sanders boosters
Bumpted by superdelegates
Hil-la-ry!

You’re a three-decker insider
esablisment sandwich,
With Rinocrat sauce!


98 posted on 12/04/2016 8:17:08 PM PST by lightman ( Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Vas is das? TRUMPALUTION!)
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