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2016 Postmortem

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20. Hillary and Obama are different types of candidates. Obama can motivate the base.

Sun Dec 4, 2016, 05:37 PM

Dec 2016

Hillary, not so much.

She had a good plan, but a weak message.

She was a weak candidate, with tons of baggage, and poor at deflecting criticism.

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yes Afromania Dec 2016 #1

Yes MFM008 Dec 2016 #2

yes Doreen Dec 2016 #3

He would have CRUSHED him like the cockroach that he is. n/t MANative Dec 2016 #4

It would have been ugly.... nevergiveup Dec 2016 #5

of course jodymarie aimee Dec 2016 #6

Considering how vital this election was DK504 Dec 2016 #10

Everybody was saying Hillary had it "in the bag"... BlueProgressive Dec 2016 #23

Yes BeyondGeography Dec 2016 #8

Yes, hands down. TheCowsCameHome Dec 2016 #9

Absolutely Obama would win. Vinca Dec 2016 #11

Of course. Tatiana Dec 2016 #12

I'm not too sure about that. Lots of baggage EffieBlack Dec 2016 #15

Yup. Biden had high positives andym Dec 2016 #17

Even if he could have run for a third term, would he have? DavidDvorkin Dec 2016 #13

I think he would have, with the wild card moonscape Dec 2016 #18

That's a good point. DavidDvorkin Dec 2016 #19

Yes-- in a landslide andym Dec 2016 #16

I'd like to think he would have crushed that lying cockroach Cha Dec 2016 #24