Where are you getting the Michigan number from? AFAIK her campaign hasn’t released any of their internal polling numbers (nor do I expect them to). They definitely saw the numbers tighten there in the closing days, but we have no idea to what extent (and from what extent). And she didn’t really campaign in Utah—they…
Clinton made mistakes that cost her Wisconsin, but not visiting it probably wasn’t one. Her campaign correctly intuited that Clinton herself visiting was unlikely to actually push voters to the polls in that state; she herself isn’t popular enough there to hold that kind of sway. They did the right thing with Madison…
Trump even admitted to that being his goal! His campaign actually had a statement (can’t remember if they put it out or if it leaked) where they admitted they were intentionally trying to suppress turnout among millennials, African-Americans, Sanders supporters and other groups that would otherwise be likely to…
Nope. The state polls that specifically focused on the middle of the country were even more incorrect than the national polls.
I agree that it was a mistake, but campaigns don’t make those decisions based on punditry; they make them based on their own internal polling. It turns out that the internal polling was just as wrong as the public polling. (EDIT: On both sides! Trump’s internal polling had him doing better than the public polls, but…
Yeah, the UCC churches here have had rainbows on ‘em for at least ten or fifteen years; the Episcopalians and Methodists have had them for at least five. And the Unitarians have progressed to straight-up Black Lives Matter signs in the windows. Not all churches are the evangelical type, and plenty are genuinely…
Yup. The second Wikileaks started interfering in the democratic process, Assange should have known he was ensuring people like Manning and Snowden would never, ever ever be pardoned. (Realistically he probably did know and didn’t care.) Obama was unlikely to pardon Manning anyway, but in the current political…
Yeah, the thing that I don’t think women have fully grasped yet is how this election affects women’s perceived “electability” going forward. Like, if you’re saying Elizabeth Warren or Kamala Harris in 2020, you don’t get what happened here. They can run, but the Democratic electorate just got burned by people telling…
Rice is pro-choice so she was pretty much guaranteed not to make it out of the Republican primary even before Trump.
I think that basically illustrates why the electoral college is useless in a modern-day context. No one could actually use it for the purpose it was intended for without destroying Americans’ faith in our entire political system. If we convince people to undermine the EC this time, Republicans will do it next time and…
Yeah, I liked this part: “We cannot be a party which cozies up to Wall Street, which raises money from billionaires and then claim to be a party of working families. The simple truth — and Mr. Trump tapped into this — is that millions of American are working longer hours for lower wages, they’re worried to death about…
what reason did yt women have to not vote for Hillary she was so qualified for the job and she was the first candidate who looked like u
Any scandals he could have accused Sanders of?
Biden wouldn’t have done any better with black and brown voters than Sanders did, and his ties to banks and credit card companies would have left him with the same liabilities as Clinton in the primary and probably turnout in the general. (Before even getting into his other weaknesses like the plagiarism thing, the…
I voted yesterday and went to a protest tonight. I wasn’t “guilt-protesting.” I was in mourning, and spending time with other people was a helpful form of medication.
I am very uncomfortable with the idea of essentially disenfranchising voters. They voted; their votes deserve to count even if they are wrong.
Nah, most of them don’t give a fuck about Hillary Clinton. They don’t particularly care for Donald Trump, either, but they do care about abortion and are never going to vote for a pro-choice candidate.
Polls suggested that he was pulling equally from both candidates or maybe even a little bit more from Clinton. (Of course, given everything else that’s happened over this election cycle, why trust polls?!) Obviously under a normal cycle he’d pull more from the Republicans, but this year there were so many Never…
Part of it was Comey’s letter, but the other part was that Johnson’s support collapsed in the final weeks and most of his supporters ultimately ended up voting for Trump.