what does that make Trump? The worst candidate?

Which is not going to change any time soon.

He lied about himself and he insulted everyone, and the fools bought into it.

Brewer and Shipley!

One toke over the line sweet mtnsnake, one toke over the line...

The most successful fake scandal in world history.

By the time Comey interfered in the election to help the Republicans there was nothing more that could be done.

I am sure he would have found a way to do the same thing somehow to Bernie Sanders or Martin O'Malley.

Unfortunately as he isn't punished what is going to stop the same thing from happening in the future?

and then aided by multiple disenfranchisement laws and regulations.

would fdr or jfk or anyone else have done better? honestly? fdr, the media would have blasted as a "cripple" who can't "stand up" for america, and a communist to boot. and something about goldman sachs. and jfk could have given the speech of the century, and the media would have cut away to donnie's empty podium.

This site also bought into it.
So some people felt perfectly fine writing in Bugs Bunny or staying home (or voting for third party) because election was in the bag.
Only it wasn't.

The Republican darling with all the funding and a swing state in his back pocket. I think that is when people started freaking out.

Lets remember that through the summer and past the first debate, Trump was Hillary's dream opponent. There was zero chance of losing.

wondered why the other Republican candidates didn't come out swinging against Trump while he was swinging hard against them at all the debates. My only logical answer is: they knew that they were hacked and their e-mails and information would be used against them if they tried to fight back hard.

Putin wanted Trump from the get-go. He was the one he wanted elected as POTUS. The other Republicans weren't as friendly toward the dictator of Russia.

And now Trump won.

Coincidence? Don't think so.

He was the last to go. And still had plenty to say after that.

FBI, a completely foreign power & adversary-Russia & their leader Putin, WikiLeaks & our very own media that was complicit in allowing Trump to downplay his bribing of State Attorney Generals, his own so-called charity foundation, the Trump University which should have been covered more as well with its fraud, non-release of Trump tax returns, Trumps conflict of interests while constantly going after Clinton saying she had to divest herself of their charity.

I mean, good candidate or not, who could go up against all of the things Clinton had to fight & win. Even with all of that, she still won the American people's vote which to me is more honest than the other EC.

Washington Establishment. Issues were always secondary to personality. Let's face it, most American's aren't politically savvy.

he stole enough states to be installed by a racist system laid out by a racist country.

Actually they were all terrible candidates. Can you name one that wasn't?

Who says that shit to me.

Bigotry, voter disenfranchisement, garbage media, Russian influence and, yes, some mistakes from Hillary.

It's ok to acknowledge that our candidate had some baggage/shortcomings and also acknowledge that there were outside influences too. People looking for one singular answer are way off the mark.

If there were, that person would have won the party's nomination.

The party apparently forgot we were supposed to be picking the candidate who would be most likely to win nationwide, not just with the Democratic base. Hillary's unfavourables showed that she was going to go into that race with serious problems even before the Republicans started campaigning properly against her.

I forget which gop official/insider said that, but I think it's right on the money. Yes, Trump took out 16 other candidates in the primaries, some of which were experienced and/or well-funded so it's obvious they all weren't crappy...but keep in mind the republican rank-and-file were hungry for someone like Trump. He came along at just the right moment...the time was ripe for him. Doubtful if any other cycle he would've gotten off the ground and in such a big way.

Republicans helped them, and Obama rolled over for it

But with that being said, I think she had certain weaknesses.....weaknesses which Trump exploited.


I think Hillary would have been a fine President but honestly, I just don't think she was a great campaigner....and unfortunately for her, that's part of the game as well.

to get elected. Made promises he cannot keep regarding Coal and Manufacturing. Demonized the other, etc etc. He told people lies they wanted to hear.

And yes he has a certain charisma that few people have. That counts a lot with some voters.

Trump was a terrible candidate, but knew how to campaign.

Go to my website doesn't work,

They flirted with it in 2012 when multiple un-electable candidates traded the polling lead before they finally bowed to reality and nominated Romney. They threw away at least three guaranteed Senate seats (Indiana, Delaware, Nevada) in past cycles by nominating the worst candidate possible. I don't think there's any doubt that Bush, Kasich, or Rubio would have been much more formidable candidates than Trump - all of them would have had the full support of their party; would have had far more money; would have had far better campaign operations. I think 3 million Gary Johnson voters (his increase between 2012 and 2016) would have voted for these guys. My own guess - these three men all would have won the national popular vote, would have won all the Trump states (with the possible exception of Michigan), and probably would have also won NH, MN, VA, CO, and NV.

Parts of the country have done very well over the past 8 years. Others did not do so well and were eager for change of any kind.

campaigner. this mess about playing psych games with trump about which states they were going to campaign in and not going to your must have states was just total bullshit.

also i have to admit seeing sen. sanders doing that town hall with chris hayes is just something i don't think hillary could do.

with how they spent money. the african-american community saved her ass in the primaries and for them to not be able to spend more then 2% of their campaign dollars with african american businesses is a freakin embarrassment.

to begin with.
That was a known fact.
Trump also had high negatives but republicans apparently fall in line no matter what their candidate is.

trump is president and hillary isn't b/c alot of liberals couldn't think of the bigger picture and couldn't get over their own sh t.

After the Access Hollywood revelations she was about 10% ahead and at about 50% of the voters according to the polls. The biggest problem in the election was that Hillary Clinton was a vulnerable candidate, because her favorability was around 35%. That allowed the Comey letter and to a lesser extent the Wikileaks stuff to hurt her campaign. Her favorability was low because of a concerted effort by the GOP to neutralize her over several years and they then got very lucky (unfortunately for us) with the FBI investigation of the email server.