2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Just wondering...is any reference to not campaigning in WI., not sending extra help to MI and PA, [View all]pnwmom
(109,537 posts)everything right and Russia wouldn't have been able to affect the vote.
Obama and others were wrong when they said that hacking would be too difficult. The Russians wouldn't have had to hack 50 states. They could win by just hacking tabulators in a handful of states -- and they had the capability. Because it turns out that 25 states are using optical scanners that can interfere with the tabulation of the vote.
In addition to that problem, more than 30 states are run by Rethugs who have done everything they could to suppress the votes of Democrats.
So we should be concentrating our efforts now on three main things, which will require a great deal of time and effort:
Bringing the voting systems in our states up to date so they cannot be hacked.
Fighting Rethug efforts to suppress the vote.
Fighting gerrymandering.
Because if we don't solve those problems, it won't matter how hard a Dem campaigns or what states she campaigns in -- she will still lose.