Too bad we still don’t have women asking the hard questions to the 53% of educated white women who voted for Trump.

“how Clinton won the popular vote by 2.8 million votes and lost by 100,000 in states that could have made her president has everything to do with what happened in Michigan. “

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.

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…

Nobody in the campaign, or the DNC, thinks they did anything wrong, and THAT’S the problem. They point fingers at Comey, Sanders, Middle America, Stein, Gary whats-his-face... but they did nothing wrong and will not change in their minds. They’re super proud of their 2.7 million vote lead, when at the end of the day…

While I am not a fan of Trump, and did indeed vote for Clinton, the only group/place/thing to blame this on is Clinton herself.

By October, the Clinton campaign was focused on winning a landslide mandate and lost sight of the fact that she actually needed to win. We live in a world where the electoral college matters — she needed to focus on the states that would take her to victory instead of states she hoped would flip blue and be bragging…

But the Obama campaign used data to identify support and to complement, not replace, the ground game. Obama for America did the leg work and knocked on a lot of doors and handed out a lot of yard signs.

How did you get to work for the democrats. Me and my wife really wanted to volunteer but had no idea to get in contract with them. We are committed to helping in the midterms. We live in Greensboro NC.

I think part of the problem is that the state-level campaigns were very decentralized, and so could be hit or miss. Your friend did an amazing job in one town, but not enough places in Michigan had awesome organizers like him. For example, I volunteered for Hillary in Massachusetts, and even in strong blue Boston it…

Trump was also up against basically the worst candidate the Democrats could have put forward. No personality, decades of baggage, averse to transparency, motivates the other side against her, unwilling to change or listen to others, and spent her time running a victory lap instead of a campaign.

I can’t tell you much about Michigan but I am from Wisconsin, a state that until recently had a long history as a Blue State. I think a couple things happened.

Anecdotal evidence, I know, but -

Yep. On paper they did everything right. Also, I worry about Democrats going too far to win back likely lost Midwest voters, when the problem in Michigan seems to have been turnout. As the article states, Trump won the state, but he won it with 30,000 less votes than Bush got in 2004 when he lost it. The future is…

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

Minorities tried to warn everyone, but how can this country run without a White Savior?

I saw similar issues in North Carolina; disorganization, turning away volunteers, no lawn signs/buttons/stickers, etc., the same few neighborhoods being canvassed repeatedly with bad voter data, while others were ignored. Lawn signs and bumper stickers might not sway other voters, but swag makes volunteers feel…

clinton counted on the EC to win this. live by the sword, die by the sword.