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Hillary Clinton

StevieM

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5. Welcome to DU!! The real issue isn't that she won the popular vote but rather that she would have

Reply to Hum (Original post)

Tue Jan 17, 2017, 07:16 PM

Jan 2017

won by 6 points nationally, with 333 electoral votes, had it not been for the Comey intervention.

And that is assuming that all the other things that went wrong in the final two weeks had still happened and that the race had still narrowed. If not for those others things (Obamacare premium increases, Russian hacking) she might have eon by 8-10 points.

The race wasn't winnable. Every time she started to pull ahead the FBI intervened and lied to the American people in order to rig the race in Trump's favor.

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"Ohh, Hillary and her campaign are blaming everyone but themselves" [View all] Hum Jan 2017 OP

+1000 K&R nt TeamPooka Jan 2017 #1

There are 20 + reasons why she lost. She only lost the electoral college by applegrove Jan 2017 #2

The excuse used by some who did not like HRC or DJT, let's see how this excuse is enough Thinkingabout Jan 2017 #3

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Welcome to DU!! The real issue isn't that she won the popular vote but rather that she would have StevieM Jan 2017 #5