Our arrogance didn’t fuck us over. The undeniable reality that America got the government that America wanted is what fucked us over. Popular vote not withstanding, our fellow citizens made this happen. We keep trying to blame everything from polls to campaign strategy to “working class” discontent on the loss…

I love that the building will still have a subtle Trump stain on it ala Lady Macbeth.

The same reason they have believed for 36 years that there are black single mothers in New York who have bought Cadillacs with all that juicy welfare.

but don’t ignore the facts just to fit the meme

Can anyone explain to me why dumb people think people who aren’t in the country legally can get on welfare? It’s already too hard for people who have never even left the country to get government assistance.

“Hello, uh, governor Romney? I don’t suppose you still have those binders of women handy...? Also, some transition papers, a competent staff, any idea what the president does, and some Jack Daniels?”

My Senator is Tim Kaine, so...

They won’t care. Facts don’t matter to them.

On the plus side, the impeachment hearings will be incredible.

Yeah, it’s time to stop fighting the trend. Americans are shallow and as uninformed as hell.

My post there wasn’t about Hillary supporters, although if you think being more negative would’ve helped with her enthusiasm issue, then I don’t know what to tell you. It was about the media’s coverage of this election. The media moved from negative thing to negate thing with Trump, no one thing was allowed to…

It was a contributing factor, I’m sure, but yes, it’s a combination of things. Chiefly among them, however, was the sexism and outright misogyny which greatly amplified the scrutiny of her track record, of the emails, and of Benghazi. I think a deduction against her on the basis of sexism/misogyny was missing from the…

The current estimated turnout is 56.9%, UP from 54.9% in 2012. The Trump/Clinton vote totals look small compared to the Romney/Obama ones because the third-party votes went from ~2million to ~6million.

And apparently that is what matters to voters now. They could give a damn about who would make the best president and are only interested in who makes the best candidate for president. We won’t make that mistake again in the 2020 primaries. Only something shiny and new and exciting in 2020 for the dumbass American…

Except that she did. And for all the whining by Sanders fans, people are out in the streets marching for her.

I think it would be fair to say that if not for Comey, she would’ve won. The more broad and systemic reasons you point to were responsible for Trump doing so well and the election being so close, but Comey interfered in the crucial moments of final stretch, right when things were more stable – and more in her favor –…

I know the article you’re referring to, I know that a lot of people have criticized it for accuracy. So far, she has only won the popular vote by 400,000. But even if that balloons up to 2 million, which seems unlikely and honestly what does the NYT know about predictions after this election, that’s still down by 8…

Her campaign strategist failed her.

In the case of my family, it’s not just that’s they’re low information but that they’re ready to spin out crazy TV show plot conspiracy theories about politics. The fact that the FBI was re-opening those emails fueled the idea that there “was just SOMETHING terrible” going on beneath the surface that cannot be quite su…

Voter turn out was very, very low for the Democrats. A lot of people were saying that they would hold their nose and vote Clinton, but after the latest “scandal” with the emails, I could see them saying “fuck it” and staying home. My father sure did.