The damage was done long before Obama told Putin to stop. The damage was done when the media decided Clinton’s win was assured and that she should be dogged relentlessly for every email revelation, real or imagined. We can complain about Russia all we want, but Russians didn’t force the New York Times to dedicate…

If I’ve learned anything from this place, it’s that “progressives” won’t direct blame at a straight white male.

Same person responded to me. The appalling behavior of BBs that was prevalent throughout the campaign has now morphed into “I told you so, you should have listened to ME” and it’s gross.

Don’t rewrite history. Trump took Bernie’s argument against Hillary and ran with it. He called her unqualified. He said she was corrupt. He said she was part of a rigged system. He ran a scorched earth campaign and continued to campaign against her once it was clear she was going to be the nominee AND he convinced his…

I work as an Election Inspector. I have nothing but anecdotal evidence, but I believe the polls failed to account for a segment of the population that had literally NEVER VOTED BEFORE who suddenly turned out to vote for Trump. We had people who were 40+ years old who had no idea how to vote, because they had never…

Yeah, Hillary didn’t campaign in Massachusetts or Connecticut either but voters in those states didn’t throw a fucking temper tantrum about it.

As a democrat in the deep south: THANK YOU. The fact that Hillary lost Ohio by 9 points (a battleground state she spent a lot of time in) but only lost Georgia by 4 points (a state I don’t think she even visited during the general election) that tells you a lot about demographics. Black people especially knew what was…

The far Left wants the narrative to be how Clinton fucked up so they can say, “We told you to pick Bernie,” when, in fact, Clinton ran a masterful campaign in the face of criticism from both the Right and the far Left. She did win by 3 million votes, after all. The Comey letter to Congress was a bullet to the heart of…

Take all of this with a grain of salt. The Clinton campaign was running a traditional organized campaign. None are perfect. They were out hawking for votes in Wisc. until the day before the election. Barack was out, Michelle was out Bernie was out there.

I like this part:

HRC’s campaign was far from perfect, but we cannot ignore that this was the first major election since the SC gutted the Votin Rights Act. Some states had fewer polling places and eliminated early voting, which hurts democratic candidates. I am not saying this was the deciding factor, but I think it played a role…

Well from where I’m sitting the feeling is mutual.

If Clinton had never set foot in my state, if I’d never watched a single debate or news story, if I only knew of Trump and Clinton pre-election, I’d STILL know better than to vote for him. Honest to fuckin’ Pete, how much time she spent in Michigan wouldn’t have mattered if people weren’t so bigoted and/or ignorant.

Maybe the campaign wasn’t perfect, but it was a really solid campaign and she performed like a boss. There were just too many outside factors at play in my opinion: poor, rural white rage (let’s call a spade a spade); fake news; Russia hacks; Wikileaks; and the FBI. Think about this list for a minute. It’s practically…

I personally have disdain for policies that hurt the poor, the environment, women, minorities, the LGBTQ community, and any disenfranchised people. The “middle of the country” tends to vote overwhelmingly in favor of these types of policies. So, yeah, maybe the people in flyover country are fine, but they sure as shit…

Back in the basket.

This argument only works if you assume they had infinite resources. If they had done the opposite you could write an article saying “they put their resources in Michigan, a state already in the bag, and gave up on Iowa.”

A couple of things I’d keep in mind about this:

We all should have been better than this, and we weren’t.

Sums it up in a depressingly accurate way. From where I’m sitting, it looks like a perfect storm of circumstances, none of which would have succeeded on it’s own, that brought Trump to power. There’s the obvious effect of gerrymandering and voter suppression…

Maybe, just maybe, this country is more racist and/or misogynist than we’d like to believe.