2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: So tell me again where we went "wrong". [View all]dragonfly301
(399 posts)and did not campaign enough in Michigan or campaign at all in Wisconsin. Her campaign didn't even poll in Michigan. She had way too many days in the summer where she had no public appearances. She had way too many days where her only appearances were private fund raisers in California or NY. She was way too focused on money and not focused enough on getting out and touching the lives of the voters - how would she improve their lives. Running for POTUS is not a part time job - she is not a great speech giver but is supposed to be great one on one - her campaign should have had her doing small gatherings in Michigan and Pennsylvania all summer long. The old fashioned way - kissing babies, shaking hands at the county fair. I wonder what the campaign thought their path to victory would be - she did repeated visits to Arizona in the fall and lost the state by 4%, in retrospect she should have spent the time in one of the states she lost by 1%.
I know we're all hurting and I'd love to get rid of the EC, but this loss is on the Clinton campaign. Time to move on and plan for the midterms that are less than two years away.