I was shocked that she lost, but upon reflection, two things stuck out to me:

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.

Partial disclosure- I ran a major swing state for a major endorser/coordinator (edited to cut identiying info), I was worried at times during the primaries especially after NH and Michigan. In the general I was certain we’d lost as soon as the Comey letter hit while I was driving to a closing event (edited again).

As soon as she was nominated. I liked the things Bernie said, but I mainly voted for him because Hillary was a candidate who had been dragged through the mud for 20+ years and who was going to have an uphill battle no matter who she ran against.

I remember talking about this here on Jezebel back in October but I kinda knew post-Labor Day, because I would look at the polls every single time Trump said or did something outrageous and Hillary would get an eight, nine, ten point lead over him but within days, her numbers fell back down to Earth and she would end…

It was after Trump became a sure thing to win the republican primary. I just thought to myself “shit. This wasn’t supposed to happen. This feels like some bad destiny type shit.” It was like whatever needed to happen for Trump to win, I just had a gut feeling that was going to happen-one way or another. No matter what…

before the primaries were over. they’ve been trashing her for decades.

For me it was when I worked hard to bring my Bernie-supporting husband over (not because she was a Democrat but because of her strengths) and realized that she was neck-and-neck with *Trump*. I remember asking my husband, “even if she wins now, who could she possibly beat in 2020?”

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