2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I am so SICK AND FUCKING TIRED of everyone armchair quarterbacking Hillary!!!! [View all]Tatiana
(14,167 posts)I know the campaign was concerned with some of the western states such as Nevada and Colorado. But the fact that they were completely oblivious to what was going in the Midwest when Michael Moore released a MOVIE essentially describing exactly what happened... It's inexcusable. I didn't receive one phone call from the campaign and I am on every Democratic phone and mailing list. During 2012 I'm sure I received at least 6 or 7 calls from the Obama campaign. And the phone calls didn't just ask me to vote for Obama--- they asked me to help them by going to Michigan and Indiana and Minnesota. They made it easy to volunteer, providing scripts for phone banking and transportation and meals to neighboring states.
Remember when Trump spoke to his people and said something along the line she of "Folks, we need your help. We have a problem in Utah." It was a reliably Repiblican state but his campaign accurately read the polling data and knew they had to shore up their base or they could lose that state. We were clueless about Michigan and Pennsylvania. Completely blind sighted. But Trump's campaign knew. That's why Kellyanne Conway (a pollster by trade) encouraged her client to reach out to disenchanted Sanders voters. She saw that Clinton was tanking in the Midwest... an area where Sanders had done well.
There is no excuse to win a state like Minnesota by such a small margin. They have strong Democratic leadership in Gov. Dayton and are the poster child for good, clean government.
I'm not only afraid of what Trump will do. I'm afraid of the blinders many Democrats refuse to take off. This is a real wake-up call. We lost to the worst candidate in American presidential history.