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Clinton Campaign May Have Been Too Smart to Win
New York Magazine ^ | 12/14/2016 | Ed Kilgore

Posted on 12/15/2016 4:29:45 PM PST by Trump20162020

The hardest thing about explaining very close election defeats is that you can talk yourself into believing any number of factors, large or small, could have made the crucial difference. Hillary Clinton’s defeat came down to 100,000 votes in three states out of nearly 130 million cast nationally. That’s a deficit so tiny that the search for a single culprit will probably take political detectives down the dark road to madness.

It is understandable that within the ranks of the Clinton campaign’s own high command, it is an article of faith that FBI director James Comey cost HRC the presidency by making the ridiculous email-server issue the dominant subject of conversation during the crucial last days of the campaign. It was an external event that came out of the blue (or more specifically, out of the fevered libido of Anthony Weiner) and reinforced doubts about Clinton’s trustworthiness among a small group of undecided voters in key states.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; 2016issues; clinton; donaldtrump; failedfraud; hillary; hillary2016; hillaryclinton; smart; trump
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To: Trump20162020

She is a genius/s

So too are all of the leftists in their crying circles/s


61 posted on 12/15/2016 5:43:58 PM PST by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor
the ridiculous email-server issue

This should be the only explanation one needs for the shocking surprise of Clinton supporters. They think the email server scandal was ridiculous.

There are plenty of us (many of which have a background in classified material) that want her thrown in prison.

62 posted on 12/15/2016 5:52:52 PM PST by USNBandit (Sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: a fool in paradise

His colorist, Bruce, likes the jaunty appearance and bold use of color highlights. It is a fabulous look this wintertime. Now, behave!

63 posted on 12/15/2016 5:53:52 PM PST by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: Trump20162020

The “only” thing the Commey thing did was to re-energize my belief that Trump would win.

I was starting to get a little dispirited and then WHAM! Commey info game out and I was on top of the world!


64 posted on 12/15/2016 5:55:26 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, R)
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To: Mears
Trump ran a campaign based on people.

Yep. I'd go further and say that Hillary ran a campaign based on cash, but then a good deal of that ended up in other pockets than campaign ones.

But you could see it happening in the rallies. The numbers and the passion. The only passion we saw from the Hillary crowd was sorrow.

65 posted on 12/15/2016 5:56:43 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Amendment10

Given the possibility of rigged voting, I’m not buying the
idea that Hillary’s defeat came down to 100,000 votes

**************

Factor in that approximately 1.3 million votes of Hillary’s total nationwide
vote margin came from one county, Los Angeles County.

Los Angeles County
Hillary ..1,893,770
Trump ..... 620,285

http://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/california


66 posted on 12/15/2016 5:57:09 PM PST by deport
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To: USNBandit

I exercise more caution with corporate data in a single workday than Hillary Clinton did in four decades.
. The woman is reckless and our country was saved from much danger.

67 posted on 12/15/2016 5:57:18 PM PST by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: zeestephen

If the fraudulent votes were removed HRC’s total numbers would be significantly less. She might even have lost The left coast by 1%.

Had all of the absentee and military ballots been counted her loss would have been greater.

She cheated at every turn and still lost.


68 posted on 12/15/2016 5:57:48 PM PST by Jaded (Pope Francis? Not really a fan... miss the last guy who recognized how Islam spread... the sword.ag)
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To: jjotto
Dems also claim Adlai Stevenson lost because he was ‘too smart’.

And they ran him TWICE.

Insanity, doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result.

69 posted on 12/15/2016 6:00:32 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles!)
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To: Trump20162020

Could have been divine providence that the hag bitch from hell just didn’t have what it takes


70 posted on 12/15/2016 6:04:54 PM PST by Figment
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To: All

Hillary may have been too beautiful to win.
Hillayr may have been too kind and generous to win.

But she wasn’t.

Nor is she too smart to win.


71 posted on 12/15/2016 6:11:41 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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Reading the tea leaves didn’t work but a head count at HRC appearances vs DJT rally attendance numbers should have provided a bit of a clue. But those numbers were seemingly disregarded.

Puzzling behavior to say the least.


72 posted on 12/15/2016 6:14:03 PM PST by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancake, just as every culture has its egg roll.)
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To: omegabea

“Horse puckey. The had all their voter fraud in place in the large cities, but didn’t count on the turnout in suburbs where they voted against Hillary.”

Bingo.


73 posted on 12/15/2016 6:22:19 PM PST by jivin gene (Breakin' up is hard to do)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Dems also claim Adlai Stevenson lost because he was ‘too smart’.

Nixon called him an "egghead".

And they ran him TWICE.

Insanity, doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result.

Of course the Republicans ran Thomas E. Dewey twice, although with different opponents. Maybe it was also insane for the Democrats not to learn from that.

74 posted on 12/15/2016 6:37:48 PM PST by wideminded
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Heck, Dems ran ‘progressive’ William Jennings Bryan THREE times.


75 posted on 12/15/2016 6:40:09 PM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: jjotto

See #74.


76 posted on 12/15/2016 6:41:03 PM PST by wideminded
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To: Trump20162020
Hillary Clinton’s defeat came down to 100,000 votes in three states...

The Seattle Seahawks' defeat in Super Bowl XLIX came down to 2 yards with a minute to go in the game.

77 posted on 12/15/2016 6:41:10 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: Trump20162020

Too smart? Too stupid is more like it.


78 posted on 12/15/2016 6:44:02 PM PST by hsmomx3 (Love my Steelers!!)
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To: Fiddlstix

hrc could have won if she’d have come out of the closet. LGBTQXYZ would snap up the “I like dyke” buttons.


79 posted on 12/15/2016 6:48:07 PM PST by bIlluminati (Who is Horatio Bunce?)
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To: Trump20162020

Well at least they can’t blame the Bushes. They were all on her side.


80 posted on 12/15/2016 6:48:23 PM PST by lewislynn (Ryan is the other half of the reason Romney got creamed by a negro with a Nobel)
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