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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumNow 2.5 Million vote lead, 2% win
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/133Eb4qQmOxNvtesw2hdVns073R68EZx4SfCnP4IGQf8/htmlview?sle=truePretty decisive win IMO; seems likely she just needed to appeal more to everyday blue collar economy/jobs issues and she would have carried the rust belt states. Shame we underestimated their ability to be duped by a lying piece of shit who said what they wanted to hear.
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Now 2.5 Million vote lead, 2% win (Original Post)
Dem2
Dec 2016
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MFM008
(19,998 posts)1. because they are morons.
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andym
(5,674 posts)2. The national polls were pretty accurate 3-4% was predicted
2% achieved.
msongs
(70,137 posts)3. lets move 150K california dems to 2 or 3 states during election season :-) nt
LisaM
(28,565 posts)4. Google could change those stats on their own by putting jobs in Wisconsin or Pennsylvania.
Last edited Thu Dec 1, 2016, 03:31 AM - Edit history (1)
If I was just getting out of college Pittsburgh or Madison would have appealed to me as much as anywhere.
pnwmom
(109,535 posts)5. She had an infrastructure program and an energy program for jobs;
she supported unions; and she supported Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, unlike the other guy -- all things that should be important to rust belt workers.
But Trump knew how to appeal to them: with racism, misogyny, Islamophobia, and Homophobia.
Curtis
(349 posts)7. Art becomes life
kebob
(499 posts)8. An I'm Proud To Be An American.....
...where at least I know we're screwed!