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sheba0915
Gender and racial issues tend to take a backseat to economic issues. It’s seen as a distraction. I ain’t about to throw them a parade simply because they aren’t outright attacking those issues like the other side. (Btw I’m agreeing with you. My ire is directed at them, not you).
Unless liberals start moving to less populated areas and spreading out from cities in a mass exodus, this popular vote/electoral college split is going to be more and more common. It would be a monumental effort to change the process, but if it’s not amended or abolished, Democrats may not see another president for…
It isn’t sour grapes that our candidate just lost. Democrats won the popular vote in 6 out of the last 7 elections! We are the only democracy in the world that does not run under the standard dictum of universal enfranchisement. One person, one vote.
Oh horse shit. Republicans were frothing at the mouth to get one of their candidates as the president, so much so that they refused to denounce Trump. It’s pretty rare that any party is able to hold the presidency for 3 terms in a row so Hilary faced an uphill battle. So many people were pissed about healthcare they…
Yeah. Also very sick of this. She lost. It wasn’t as simple as her being “unlikeable.” Why was she unlikeable? Oh idk maybe the other Democrat candidate refused to concede basically forever after already losing and there were fake news stories circulating about her running a child sex ring out of a pizza shop WHICH…
Yes, Bernie would have been toast. Bernie ran a populist campaign, and so did Trump. But...Trump won. There appear to be many people- including groups that were traditionally Democrats- that didn’t want a female liberal, but did want a racist, sexist, unqualified white guy. With name recognition.
you know, the thing that is giving me crippling depression about 2016 is not that conservatives voted for donald trump - i pretty much expected that. it’s all the personal sexism i experienced from ostensibly liberal men about hillary clinton, and now the victim-blaming that they are heaping on her after the fact.
I feel like the disconnect between the popular vote and the electoral vote is the like a big neon sign saying “OUR BIGGEST PROBLEMS ARE STRUCTURAL”
I’d still argue that she’s not really allowed to be ascendant or inspirational, since the average voter is put off by the idea of a woman who wants to be a leader who isn’t also somehow the living embodiment of a hug from grandma and a plate of warm chocolate chip cookies. She also could have gotten further with…
so one state that houses a huge number of the US population shouldn’t count?
She didn’t run a “horrid” campaign, she ran a normal campaign in a totally abnormal political climate, and was further hamstrung by the fact that (1) there were many effective responses to Trump’s bullshit that weren’t available to her because she is a woman, (2) the media was obsessed with poring over every detail of…
Hillary didn’t fucking fail. She beat Trump by nearly three million votes.
Next time a dude tries to patronize me about politics I’m going to say his opinion is irrelevant and he should stick to Football and sports.
THE YET-UNHEARD-OF ZORRO SNAP
If Hillary had won she wouldn’t haven’t needed to do this. People would have been lining around the block to play for her inauguration. Who wouldn’t want to perform for the the inauguration for the first woman president of the United States? You would have made the history books.
It’s contract adherence, which is arguably a good thing. He’s just being a huge dick about it. A good union leader would have said something like, “I understand your frustrations. I’ve looked over our bargained contract, and unfortunately there are no loopholes on this one. We’ll be talking with management over the…
And the Rockettes’ red glares....