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riversedge

(73,123 posts)
Sun Jan 29, 2017, 01:02 PM Jan 2017

4 pieces of evidence showing FBI Director James Comey cost Clinton the election

This is an older article but I will put here for Reference.


http://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/1/11/14215930/comey-email-election-clinton-campaign




4 pieces of evidence showing FBI Director James Comey cost Clinton the election

And yes, it still matters.


Updated by Sean McElwee, Matt McDermott, and Will Jordan Jan 11, 2017, 9:40am EST


A scene from Hillary Clinton’s final campaign rally, in Philadelphia, November 7. Brooks Kraft / Getty




Donald Trump has called his election a historic landslide, but it was anything but. Only two other presidents have been elected with smaller popular vote margins since records began in 1824. His edge in the Electoral College, while decisive, depends on less than 80,000 votes across three states (Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania) out of more than 135 million cast nationwide. It was a very close election.
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In a close election, there are a million reasons “why” it was close. Trump’s popularity with working-class whites. Turnout among the Democratic base. Campaign malpractice in the Midwest. Jill Stein. Millennials. Most are probably true in the sense they could move enough votes.

The Clinton campaign, however, has centered its why-we-lost narrative on the “Comey effect,” along with another outside factor, Russia’s hacking of DNC and Clinton campaign email accounts. The “Comey effect” refers to the impact of FBI Director James Comey’s October 28 letter to the House Judiciary Committee announcing the discovery new emails that appeared pertinent to their closed investigation of Clinton and his subsequent letter on November 6 that absolved Clinton (after millions of votes had already been cast early).

Many people — most notably Trump and other Republicans — have scoffed at the claim that the letter changed the outcome of the election, suggesting that it’s a convenient excuse for a weak candidate who made some questionable strategic decisions.

But the Comey effect was real, it was big, and it probably cost Clinton the election. Below, we present four pieces of evidence demonstrating that this is the case........................

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4 pieces of evidence showing FBI Director James Comey cost Clinton the election (Original Post) riversedge Jan 2017 OP
Putin helped get it close, and Comey put Trump over the top in the EC. Simple as that. SunSeeker Jan 2017 #1
I called it that day Nonhlanhla Jan 2017 #2
I didn't like how he interjected his personal views on the email investigation.. JHan Jan 2017 #3
Comey used his position to Progressive dog Feb 2017 #4

Nonhlanhla

(2,074 posts)
2. I called it that day
Mon Jan 30, 2017, 07:32 PM
Jan 2017

When the news broke, I told my mom, this man has just cost Hillary the election.

I despise Comey with the passion of a thousand fiery suns. He is lower than pond scum.

JHan

(10,173 posts)
3. I didn't like how he interjected his personal views on the email investigation..
Tue Jan 31, 2017, 02:13 AM
Jan 2017

and I despise him for his stinking stunt two weeks before the election.

I hope History judges him as the PoS he really is.

Progressive dog

(7,235 posts)
4. Comey used his position to
Thu Feb 2, 2017, 09:55 AM
Feb 2017

cost Hillary the election. That is obvious. Now we need to know who else was involved and whether they worked directly with Putin and his cyber and propaganda attacks on the US elections.

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