2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)Hillary WON the hearts of the voters. She lost the Electoral College, [View all]
which is rigged against the voters who live in the diverse, urban areas where most voters live.
Besides winning almost 2.9 million more votes than DT, and virtually matching Obama's 2012 vote, she might have been able to overcome the rigged system, and to have obtained a majority in the Electoral College, if Comey and Russia hadn't interfered.
But anyone who says that "people" weren't enthused about Hillary or that she didn't reach out to "Americans" is falling into the trap set by the Rethugs.
Despite what they want us to believe, white rural voters are NOT more important than the rest of us -- except in the Electoral College, which was deliberately rigged to make it so.
And for the worst reason possible: to sustain our country's original sin: the sin of slavery.
http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/164670
How the Electoral College Protected Slavery
http://www.salon.com/2016/12/15/the-electoral-college-born-of-slavery-could-stand-against-racism-in-2016/
Part of the Electoral College's original purpose was to protect slave-state power. Will it redeem its history now?
http://www.vcstar.com/story/opinion/columnists/2016/12/17/michael-powelson-electoral-college-slavery-remnant/95536018/
From its foundation, the Electoral College was intended to extend greater power to the Southern slave holders the slaveocracy of the early Republic.