It’s funny because she won the popular vote anyway.

That’s great and all Bernie, but your one-note Millennial issue concerns are why you tanked the 35+ black and Latino vote, and therefore didn’t win the nomination.

This is so so true. It’s so annoying when people try to explain it by saying “these voters felt left behind by the economy.” I live in Kentucky. Most Trump supporters I know are relatively well off (it is true, in my experience, that many do not have college degrees, but work trade or own businesses) and white. It’s…

It’s more about visibility and keeping it in the news and also unsettling him (The Orange Terror), in my opinion. He can’t take any criticism, so seeing many peaceful protests calling him names will distract him from trying to do anything. He’s an idiot anyways, but the more we can do to throw him off balance, the…

Legally, he will be my president and I will follow American laws. This is a sign of protest. He does not represent me in any way, shape or form. He is openly bigoted and sexist. He lied like his pants were on fire. He encouraged Russian espionage. He benefitted from egregious FBI actions. His fellow Republicans…

I really don’t understand the hate Nate Silver’s getting right now — especially since until yesterday he was getting a significant amount of hate for being too bullish on a Trump win. I watched 538 religiously ... and I was fucking terrified, because Silver not only gave Trump a 1-in-3 to 1-in-4 chance of winning over…

Blame Nate silver all you want, but he was one of the only statisticians that has trump roaring back in the final two weeks prior to the election. IIRC, 538 had Clinton at 65% and trump at 35% the night before the election, with statistical scenarios presented on how both candidates could win. NYTimes, HufPo, WaPo,…

What’s funny is that, 24 hours ago, people were saying “Fuck Nate Silver for giving Trump such a high chance of winning.”

The two main explanations I have heard for this upset are 1:“but it’s because of disfranchisement right now” and 2: “people wanted change, and Trump represented that.”

538 was totally wrong about Trump in the primaries, but they came off better than most pollsters in the end. They were giving Clinton a 70% chance and warning about her firewall when others were saying the election was over.

I mean, polls are only as good as the data. I think a lot of people turned to Trump later on—what we saw in the last couple weeks was real. Those trying to collect, analyze, and make sense of that data aren’t to blame, I’m really sick of hearing that.

I don’t know the answer to this anymore. It’s common for people to point to polls showing Sanders beating Trump. But the polls also showed Clinton beating Trump and they were all wrong.

Thanks, clover. I can’t deal with the “sanders would have done better” or “ but it’s because of disfranchisement right now. No. the poorest are POC, so it’s not that. They are just racists.

The gap between Trump and Clinton in Wisconsin is just under 27,000 votes. Nearly 31,000 people in Wisconsin voted for Jill Stein.

She better not come back in the next election and complain about how terrible Trump is, just as she did with GWB in 2004. She’s done this twice now, and she’s disgrace to this country. I’m not watching any movies that she’s in going forward.

The Pantsuit Nation has been breaking up into small local chapters. They’re beginning to organize if anyone is interested in looking up a local chapter. They’re interest is that they will offer public support for progressive female candidates and to educate lawmakers on progressive policy. In the main group one woman…

I want to send a pre-emptive piping hot GET FUCKED to all the idiots who are going to come out of the woodwork to say this happened because we weren’t nice enough to the angry white racist/sexist voters, and if only we had coddled them and respected their abhorrent viewpoints we wouldn’t be in this mess.

That’s because “it actually wasn’t really Nader’s fault. Gore was just a bad nominee. Blah blah blah.”

Guys, in the lead up to this election, I read so many articles about the Nader effect in 2000 and how we can’t let that happen again. And yet here we are. This is fucking bullshit.

And here comes the hot takes. Yes, people of color pushed whites to be more cognizant of their racial identity. Nevermind the fact that whites have been so cognizant of their racial identity that they built an entire world system, predicated on white supremacy, off the backs of those who are decidedly not white. My…