Obama says Democrats lost by not showing up

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3. I am sure glad it didn't have anything to do with the 2013 SC decision which struck

down a key provision in the voters rights act.

Or that after that decision, 14 states added new voting restrictions just in time for the 2016 election:

www.brennancenter.org/voting-restrictions-first-time-2016

North Carolina would have been included in that list, but last minute court rulings were able to get voters who had been removed from the voter registration list reinstated:

www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/north-carolina-naacp-voter-suppression_us_5817634fe4b064e1b4b385df

In spite of that, in North Carolina many of those voters did not realize they could vote in time.

I am relieved that those voting restrictions which started in 2013, and were not in place for the 2008 and 2012 election, and were primarily aimed at supressing the African American vote had nothing to do with it.

While we are at it, let's also ignore the FBI/Comey interference, the media's bias, and the Russian hacking.

and by the way, this election wasn't just about the presidency.

Russ Feingold, Zypher Teachout, and every Democrat running for Senate in those critical swing states, lost to the establishment, incumbent, republican

For those self-identified progressives who refused to vote for Hillary, and thought they were teaching us a lesson, I think Noam Chomsky said it best:

“I think they [made] a bad mistake,” said Chomsky, who reiterated that it’s important to keep a “greater evil” from obtaining power, even if you’re not thrilled with the alternative. “I didn’t like Clinton at all, but her positions are much better than Trump’s on every issue I can think of.”

Chomsky also attacked the arguments made by philosopher Slavoj Zizek, who argued that Trump’s election would at least shake up the system and provide a real rallying point for the left.

“[Zizek makes a] terrible point,” Chomsky told Hasan. “It was the same point that people like him said about Hitler in the early ’30s… he’ll shake up the system in bad ways.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/noam-chomsky-progressives-who-refused-to-vote-for-hillary-clinton-made-a-bad-mistake/