Posted on 12/05/2016 7:15:03 PM PST by Hadean
Hillary's campaign has lots of excuses for losing. 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.
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Where the campaign needed to win upward of 60 percent of young voters, it was able to garner something “in the high 50s...” Mook said. “That’s why we lost.”
The national exit poll shows Clinton underperformed Barack Obama's 2012 share of the vote by one point with those between the ages of 30 and 44 and by three points with those 45 to 64.
Among those between 18 and 29, she took five points less — 55 percent versus Obama's 60.
Clinton's 55-36 margin [19 points] among those ages 18 to 29 is also significantly worse than late polls suggested it would be. A mid-October poll from the Harvard Institute of Politics showed her leading 59 to 29 in a two-way matchup with Trump... A GenForward survey conducted by the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, meanwhile, had her up 41 points, 60 to 19.
They, of course, are national polls, and the race was really decided in a handful of close states — Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. And sure enough, Clinton did even worse among young people in those states.
While Clinton's national margin of victory among young people was only four points worse than Obama's 60-to-37 edge, Michigan's exit poll shows her margin among young people there was five points worse (+28 for Obama vs. +23 for Clinton). In Florida, it was 16 points worse (+34 vs. +18). In Pennsylvania, it was 17 points worse (+28 vs. +9). And in Wisconsin, it was 20 points worse (+23 vs. +3).
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Maybe millenials had enough bitchy women for a lifetime and decided they didn’t need another one on top of their helicopter mother, every teacher in school and what they see on the small and large screens. Along comes a guys guy who swears, plays golf, builds stuff, makes money and has a defined affinity for beautiful women...a heretofore unknown species...
You do not blame millennials for Hillary's loss. You blame Hillary for Hillary's loss.
To do anything else is to make Hillary a victim of an ignorant public. That is the narrative that the left is pushing. We as a people are not too stupid, too lazy, too easily manipulated, too fake newsed, too Russian hacked, too FBI fooled. We as a people saw through the wicked, evil person that was Hillary.
My two millennials would NEVER have voted for that lying bitch.
Hillary is why Hillary lost.
No, the only person you can ‘blame’ for hillary’s defeat is hillary.
No one liked her message.
And, by the way, that’s what ‘personal responsibility’ means.
Hey give Trump some credit too.
.....looks Luke a box of hamsters
Luke=like
The Democrats should have known they had a serious problem during the primary season when all these young people latched on to a loony old guy who looked old enough to be Donald Trump’s father.
I guess this means curriculum in state colleges and universities is going to have to be overhauled. Current indoctrination is not taking.
After the election the newspaper at my alma mater Salem State U in MA had a headline, “Trump Wins, WTF?” and disgust at the result.Of course this is deep blue MA so whether millenial snowflakes voted or not, she was gonna win big here. My first vote, in 80, was for Reagan. I’m sure many got to see what the electoral college can do...give a voice to the flyover states.
In 00 Gore won the pop vote but failed in EV and his home state could have put him over the top.And oh, kids, that musical you’ve heard so much about, Hamilton? Yeah...he was the guy who brought us the
electoral college.
(And somewhere I read that some students at my alma mater were worried about being deported under Trump...)
The reason Dems lost is because BHO wasn’t on the ballot. Any time in the past 20 years that BHO was absent - ie not 2006, 2008 or 2012 - have been bad nights for Democrats.
Their “Coalition of the Ascendant” is baloney. They believe their own BS and continue to fail to present a Trans-National message. Just a few coast and college enclaves. That’s why they lost the Electoral College, just as the Founding Fathers intended.
And the fact that they are going with a Pelosi / Schumer / Ellison (please!!) cabal going forward shows just how messed up the Dems are. What’s the definition of insanity?
We may indeed keep winning so often we can’t stand it. Bring it!
If anything, I say, "Thanks for the help, millennials - we needed it!"
As others have stated, the blame rests squarely upon Hillary, for being the absolute worst, uninspiring, loathsome and transparently dishonest candidate in U.S. history.
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