During the primaries, he did, yeah. Specifically among Democrats. The Democrats mostly voted for someone during the primaries who didn’t gain enough independent and Republican swing voters during the election. A person could easily lose the Democratic primary and still have maintained a different appeal among…
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Which swing state did Clinton win that Bernie would have lost? She lost every swing state predicted by basically every pollster, and then a few of the very secure states like Wisconsin.
I don’t think anyone would call their handing of the party to Wasserman-Schultz et al any kind of concession. I expect no one to understand why the Democrats lost. I expect the DNC to double down on its contempt for the voters.
Nah, we just listened to your spiel about the down-ballots and the Supreme Court, and how liberalism was “too dangerous” to “try out”, and how we should be talking about the voters’ races and genders—instead of the candidates’ policies. As it turns out, your strategy didn’t work.
Whatever. If Clinton had won, we’d be hearing a different kind of “I told ya so’s”. I just remember being told repeatedly that the “Supreme Court is too important” to vote for Bernie in the primaries. I remember being told that “down-ballots are too important” to vote for Bernie in the primaries. When the…
Us liberals were called “trolls” during the primaries, too. Then they said the “Supreme Court was too important” to take a chance.
I’ve withheld most of my “I told ya so’s” since election day. But with all the scapegoating of third party votes, liberals, and everyone else around here? It’s refreshing to see someone who is actually willing to blame the campaign management for a campaign that failed.
99% of the people on this site voted for Clinton in the general election. You and the people around here are scrambling to assign blame to someone here. To liberals, or to moderates that weren’t enthusiastic enough, as if our one vote counted differently.
The whole DNC scene was a tabloid in its larval stages, from Wasserman-Schultz to Weiner to Podesta. Not one of them respected Clinton or her message, and they became liabilities in turn.
Yup. Democrats vote for people they like; Republicans vote against people they hate. The truth is, the men and women (alike) wouldn’t have voted for Clinton in any case. Now, everyone is scrambling to say this third party vote (which is smaller than usual anyway) is bad, and third parties are bad, and the election…
Clinton and her campaign were responsible for their own great campaigning during the primaries, and they won. Clinton and her campaign were also responsible for their own campaigning during the general.
Let me know when the scapegoating is done. I hated the campaign that we ran from start to finish. By the time the DNC moved onto the general election, the public was already divided into tribes and hoping our cohesion would beat theirs. Then, like now, it was scapegoating all around and we dropped the ball in an…
Ugh, Bobbie’s vote just gave New York to Trump. Way to vote third party!
I don’t honestly understand how all these new people got into the Democratic Party’s political camp, but they seemed like tabloid fodder from the start. Clinton’s team legitimately includes a bunch of idiots that keep squandering something decent—keep going wherever they please with the help of a liberal base that…
I bet he doesn’t even know how many minims are in a fluid dram, how many fathoms are in a furlong, how many rods are in a mile, how many pecks make a bushel, or how many cords are in an acre-foot. That’s downright un-American.
Maybe. Or Trump would leak it himself, because he’s the Max Bialystock of politics. He keeps wondering where he went right, trying to sink his own campaign, while trying to cash in on his supposedly “self-funded” windfall.
Trump’s got this developing Miss Teen USA bullshit he did, supposedly some rumors about a rape trial at which he must testify, there are women coming forward against him, and also some salacious outtakes from The Apprentice that would cost a fortune to reveal. He’s cooked, but it doesn’t make sense for people to push…
Profiles in coura—well?—no, I’m staying the cour—mm, ehh—well, look, he’s better than the alternati—eh, no, that is to say, my constituents wi—ehh, hm.
Carson’s smarter than Trump. So is Fiorina. It’s not worth any accolades, but it’s also objectively true. You’d need to make a claim about Carson and Fiorina that make them less qualified than Trump, even at his own game of being a pot-stirrer and businessman.