Candidates are responsible for winning or losing.

There are no demographic groups small enough that a bit more of a swing toward Hillary or a swing away from trump wouldn't have changed the outcome. At which point throwing blame around isn't much use.

the loss. The campaign, the candidate, the damn media has a huge part, the potential voters, etc

in big enough numbers. Still, I bet many will never throw their vote away on a 3rd party again.

The Fix should fix it's copy. Those are reasons, not excuses.

and have fought back against Comey/GOP witchhunts harder, especially in July when he gave his smug, moralizing speech. If they could've successfully neutured Comey earlier he would not have posed the threat he did, ultimately throwing the election to Trump.

Without Comey's stunt she wins easily.

Her turnout of young voters was still pretty good, enough to win.

I wish younger voters would've cared enough, and been inspired by H's story as a pioneer and an icon for civil rights and women's rights, who would've been the first woman president, in a country that is 240years old and has never had one.

I wish they would've seen the fascist threat posed by Trump/Pence to their own futures.

I wish they would've not bought into the false equivalence that "both candidates were the same", as Bill Maher stated a week before the election, "that getting voters to buy into this idea was the Repubs only path to victory".

But ultimately we can't expect young voters to be hyper excited in every election, like they were for Obama, as depending on that type of formula (personality politics) is not repeatable.

What Dems need to do is sit down and formulate a set of policies that young voters want, such as drug law reforms, criminal justice reform, college tuition/loan reform (which H did propose) and other policies that get them to the polls, even in midterms, local races, etc.