So tell me again where we went "wrong".

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49. What narrative has less merit than the one you are positing?

We lost the EC. Which is the rule set that both candidates agreed upon prior to the election. THAT'S the bottom line.

If we had changed the rules after the Gore/Bush election then you would have a leg to stand on. But WE DIDN'T.

So here we are. Now you are grousing about losing using the rules that they both agreed on.

Nance, once again you are moving the goalposts of your arguments. You have excellent writing, beautiful prose, but you don't support any of it with actual facts. Then when facts are presented, you dance around them with another article that is beautifully written, but empty.

You are becoming part of the problem that Democrats are having. We're not listening to what's being told and not accepting it unless it fits our world view. I've heard every excuse from sexism, to the media, to Bernie, to Comey, to whatever becomes the BS topic of next weeks party line. End of the day, she still didn't win using the rules they agreed on.

YES. she won the popular vote. NO. it doesn't matter, because she didn't win the areas that she needed to to take the EC.
YES, she was the wrong candidate because she lost the states she needed to win.

Could someone else have done it? I don't know. It's not a bad narrative though, because she lost where she should not have done so.

Everybody thought, You included, that this election was a done deal. So much so that you were thanking the GOP before the election for running this idiot.

Nobody wanted to hear the warnings that her poll numbers were dropping in the days prior to the election.
No one in the "know" wanted to listen to the news unless it told them just what they wanted to hear.

She could have had the right message, she may have even been the right person (although I don't think she was), but she lost, so that tells us that something was wrong.

Seeing as how we are also losing much of the down ballot races, it should tell us something more.

Nance, Take your awesome writing and do something better than make excuses for the loss.
You have skills that could help change minds. You are worlds better a wordsmith than I could ever be. But your dogged refusal to deal with the situation as is, doesn't create any want to read your work.

I find that I'm tired, not of trying to make change, but of the terrible mindset that has infected the Democratic Party.
We don't deserve to win if we don't put in an effort to communicate our message better than we did in 2016. We didn't resonate to the folks that we agreed that mattered.