2016 Postmortem

An easier case to be made is that the Comey letters did -- and even that can not be actually proven. Consider what the wikileaks contained and ask yourself if anyone on the fence would have been persuaded to vote for Trump rather than Clinton because of it.

The worst leaks were the DNC leaks. There the impact was that several top people were kicked out and it could be seen that the DNC was in the tank for HRC. On the latter, I doubt that came as a surprise to anyone -- it was pretty obvious. Were the people kicked out more capable than their replacements? Would the campaign strategy been different?

I would suggest that the reason she lost WI was due to voter suppression -- because of the need for ids that were hard for some to get. There was also voter suppression in North Carolina and a few other states. Why am I risking the anger of some questioning that it was the hacking, because VOTER SUPPRESSION was the reason that we also lost 2000 and 2004. Even with the ballot problems in both 2000 FL and 2004 OH, without the felons list and the actions to limit the vote of Haitian Americans in FL or the inadequate number of machines in OH -- Gore and Kerry would have won. This is an ongoing problem and democracy requires that we fix it. We should have done so when we had more power.