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2016 Postmortem

HurricaneWarning

(220 posts)

9. True,

Reply to Emilybemily (Reply #8)

Mon Dec 19, 2016, 12:11 AM

Dec 2016

But they keep making this false equivalency. It's becoming a pattern.

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Hillary WON the hearts of the voters. She lost the Electoral College, [View all] pnwmom Dec 2016 OP

Thank you, pnwmom Cha Dec 2016 #1

Ditto. And it needs to be repeated frequently. Coyotl Dec 2016 #41

YES this Chimichurri Dec 2016 #2

What scares me deist99 Dec 2016 #3

How? Because we are extremely divided by partisan politics. It used to be pnwmom Dec 2016 #5

Exactly! The Liberal Lion Dec 2016 #7

And now Mediaite is reporting that Trump supporters are receiving death threats. HurricaneWarning Dec 2016 #4

Oh I am sure that is not true Emilybemily Dec 2016 #8

True, HurricaneWarning Dec 2016 #9

K & R SunSeeker Dec 2016 #6

I voted for her, but HRC never won my heart. Larkspur Dec 2016 #10

give it a rest Skittles Dec 2016 #12

+ JI7 Dec 2016 #14

+1000 Paladin Dec 2016 #31

She ran a very good campaign, but the fake email scandal was too much to overcome. StevieM Dec 2016 #16

What you say is mostly true, but she and the party also made some BIG mistakes. Let's be honest. RBInMaine Dec 2016 #22

Then you are part of the problem. baldguy Dec 2016 #23

So voting for HRC made me part of the problem? Larkspur Dec 2016 #48

Believing the "lesser of two evils" bullshit does. baldguy Dec 2016 #49

But Comey and Russia found a way to do so. JTFrog Dec 2016 #42

Except her 'losing' the electoral college triron Dec 2016 #11

Thanks for this link. nt LaydeeBug Dec 2016 #47

hillary should do her own victory tour :-) nt msongs Dec 2016 #13

hmm triron Dec 2016 #15

I like it! nt JTFrog Dec 2016 #43

Actually the voters hated both candidates, but one had to win jfern Dec 2016 #17

Speak for yourself. Millions of voters loved Hillary. n/t pnwmom Dec 2016 #18

Both have solidly negative net favorables jfern Dec 2016 #19

Because the Rethugs have spent almost two years smearing her. pnwmom Dec 2016 #20

Hillary is a poor candidate. Her favorables were high when no one was paying any attention to her. jfern Dec 2016 #29

It doesn't matter why the negative perception exists... TCJ70 Dec 2016 #38

Two years?! Try three decades! meow2u3 Dec 2016 #46

I like Hillary, but she LOST the hearts of too many voters. We can't just be a big city party. RBInMaine Dec 2016 #21

Voter suppression is why we had fewer African Americans than Obama. pnwmom Dec 2016 #24

I stopped reading at "virtually matched Obama". she didn't. Exilednight Dec 2016 #25

Sorry, but not good enough. aikoaiko Dec 2016 #26

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I disagree bowens43 Dec 2016 #30

Get back to us in a year, about how awful Hillary's "baggage" was..... (nt) Paladin Dec 2016 #33

+1, I'd take her's any day... that posters thinking that justifies RWNJ imho uponit7771 Dec 2016 #37

This is false on face, why repeat RWTP here? Relative to her time in public face she had very little uponit7771 Dec 2016 #36

Or maybe spoken like a Democrat who hates that we will have a Pres. Trump aikoaiko Dec 2016 #32

She did NOT win the hearts of the voters bowens43 Dec 2016 #28

She didn't win my heart, just my vote considering the horrible alternative. nm progree Dec 2016 #34

+1, Donald Trump won America lost !!!!! uponit7771 Dec 2016 #35

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That was posted Nov 9 -- it is way out of date. progree Dec 2016 #40

I sit corrected. hellofromreddit Dec 2016 #44

She came SO close. jmg257 Dec 2016 #45