2016 Postmortem

Oh, spare me.

Hillary tried very hard to lock up the nomination in 2015 by raising enough money to keep any one else from even remotely considering running against her. And she was happy to run a same old same old campaign, with lots of input from Wall Street. She at best paid lip service to basic economic issues like a minimum wage that would be a living wage.

She lost because her campaign was arrogantly certain they'd win big time. Of course, as we already know, she did win the popular vote by some 2million plus, but our stupid Electoral College system gives a different result for who will become President.

People, especially people here, consistently underestimated the strength of dislike of her and of unwillingness to vote for her for many reasons, not the least of which was the simple fact that she's a woman. I kept on hearing people being all dreamy over The First Woman President as if that were the only thing that mattered. I knew that there were millions out there who sincerely think a woman has no business being in public life at all, and certainly not as President. Maybe if the Republicans nominated a woman they'd change their minds, but I make no predictions.

In any case, Hillary lost entirely on her own, and to blame Bernie is bullshit. Plus, try real hard to forget all the polling that showed he'd beat Trump but she wouldn't. That's the only way you can blame him, not her.