At the convention, you’re supposed to move to unite the factions of the party. Not basically go “Fuck You” to a huge swath of energized voters and pick random-ass white dude from a northeastern purple state who shares most of your policy views.

YES. With Sanders her only competition, the fact that he and his supporters were making up a huge chunk of likely voters should have pointed her LEFT in her search for a running mate. Kaine was a safe bet but JESUS, was he boring, and he didn’t fill any gaps that she left open. Clinton herself is so close to the…

The whole thing seemed sketchy from the beginning.

same here. Trump outflanked her on the VP pick and it kills me to admit that.

It was when the Comey letter showed up. Up until then, I thought it was close but winnable. After the 10 days of speculation and gibberish between the arrival of the letter and the confirmation that there was nothing to see, I got the sinking feeling that there wasn’t enough time for her to battle back.

I agree with this. No offense meant to Kaine, but she needed someone that brought real energy to the campaign. When I saw that, I got a sinking feeling

I had a sense of low-grade dread when I saw Trump’s numbers creeping back up even after pussygate. But in hindsight, the massive upset in the Michigan primary should have been a fucking huge warning sign that things were about to go tits up.

No matter how much I joked about how Trump had “no chance,” I knew deep down that he did for the simple reason that it’s mainstream and “cool” to not like Hillary. We can debate how she lost all we want, but the simple fact is that she’s a deeply uncool and unlikable woman. Unlikable men sometimes get a chance (look…

This goes hand in hand with the “didn’t have a clear message problem.” Dems in general have spent years campaigning to the center with the attitude that their base has nowhere else to go, and it finally caught up to them in a huge way.

I got the feeling when she announced Tim Kaine as her VP. This was the time to pick a firebrand pro-labor, anti-free trade person and she didn’t. At that moment, my “Oh Shit” alarm went off.

It was when my progressive friends on Facebook all came to the same collective realization that we were voting for Hillary not because we liked her but because she was our only bulwark against fascism. And when my libertarian friends on Facebook pushed toward Johnson because “fear is not a reason for voting.”

As…

When did y’all start to get the feeling that she could lose?

Don’t you know that only heathens and miscreants have diseases? If you lived a good Christian life, you’re immune to cancer and only sinners and malefactors are born with genetic disorders.

I assume we’ll have to take a Bible exam for insurance purposes now.

Never fear, Republicans have your best interests at heart.

“Take care of his pre existing condition” sounds like a phrase uttered in a bad mafia movie right before they whack a guy.

I think take care of pre-existing conditions is code for thinning the herd.

Yeah, I’m sure you’re going to “take care” of pre-existing conditions so that soon, my insurance company won’t cover mine anymore, you fucking nightmare.