but, nobody paid attention to them. Other than Hillary's emails, nobody paid attention to what she said in almost all of her speeches. They media cared about Trump tweets and/or outrageous statements, Clinton emails and that was about it.

She got good coverage from her first big speech on Trump, but almost nothing after that until the debates. She could have talked about the economy for 10 hours a day, but if nobody paid attention to it, does it matter?

There is little helping under informed voters because they believe what they want to hear. They don't care about reality if reality doesn't agree with their perceptions and they perceive poorly.

Repeated his lines verbatim. You had to read 3-4 paragraphs in till the "misstatements" were gently noted.
It wasn't till late September until the NYT apologized for not ever using the word lie.

...there's a fair amount of stupidity mixed in as well...

I wish someone would do a breakdown of the economy in these rural areas from beginning of Obama admin till now

n/t

the stupidity of the American public.

... they trust in no way can be just wrong or just get information wrong.

Sid

it's the same reason why Feingold lost in WI, after leading by 10% on Oct 1. An onslaught of misleading ads can finish off just about any candidate these days, as long as voters can't distinguish fact from fiction. About 40-60% of voters are ignorant of issues or current events, if not even more actively misinformed.

Lot's of people here believe inflation is running rampant when it's been almost zero for years.

They voted the way they did because Trump channeled their inner bigot.

... overt racist so of course the people who voted Obama would vote against HRC if there was an overt racist running for prez.

You still believe Dems can reach these idiots. They can't.

It is a waste of time.

Half of the population didn't bother to vote. That is where Dems need to go, not cater to bigots and morons.

could actually win.

but i think there were some who thought Trump just could not win so it was ok if they didn't vote. these are people who would vote democratic if they vote. but they are the type that would easily not vote for no serious reason .