...the difference being she did it herself in the general but had surrogates do it during the primary. It's almost like that's a bad idea or something.

Obama made a similar gaffe in 2008 (clinging to God and guns) but it didn't hurt him much. At the end of the day, many people who might have taken offense saw an upside in going with someone new and promising and were willing to give him a pass whereas with Hillary the same type of voter had already had a negative view of her candidacy and it hurt her. She needed to walk a finer line.

Sid

Trump? ."I could walk out in the street and shoot someone and my followers would still vote fore me?" There are so many. Notice how the right can lie and slander to infinity and never be called on it by the press but let Hillary or a left leader say anything without it being scrutinized to infinity.

but given that those voters admired Trump's rude remarks, it's hard to believe it had much if any of an impact.

...friends of ours here in Arizona, he is a Exec Sales guy and travels Arizona and Mexico. He supported tRump because he believes "he will shake things up in Washington." A day or two after the deplorables comment, he already was having t-shirts printed and was having business cards printed with "deplorables" language. He pointed to the comment as "evidence" of just how out-of-touch Clinton was. Mind you, this is an intelligent guy, probably makes at least 100K a year. He voted for Bill Clinton TWICE.

Just days after the deporables comment, I was in Walmart, turned the corner and saw matching deplorables shirts on husband and wife.

Deplorables became: (1) a rallying cry; (2) signage- t-shirts, coffee mugs, etc. and (3) "verification" as to Clinton out-of-touch.

And speaking of my friend, he and his wife thought tRump's comments about women were "foul and ill-advised," but not a game changer for them.

When you are already thoroughly indoctrinated with Hillary Hate, her opponent could do no wrong, and she can do no good. And no, it does NOT make sense.

Like lots of women worse nasty women t-shirts. But they were already Trump supporters, weren't they?

..And Turned into a rallying cry.

over well.

I cringed the second i heard it

They wore it like a badge of honor as many on our side embraced " Nasty Woman"

It's not the reason he won but it didn't help

this site and party labels people with a hair trigger

But you already knew that.

the rabid supporters of a racist, misogynist, lying piece of shit like Trump.

great. And the fucked up media did not bring it up when they played victim .

So they got to act like she was the hateful one while trumps disgustung ass attacked others and they cheered it on.