2016 Postmortem

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Even still, she had the race won decisively, and would have carried in a Democratic Senate, had Comey not disgraced himself by using his office to interfere in the election with 11 days to go. She would have won by a good 6 points, with 333 electoral votes, even assuming that Trump narrowed the margin in the final week.

And, of course, the drip-drip-drip from the Russians did some damage as well, going all the way back to the Convention.

HRC won all the debates and put on a great convention. She did a lot right under very difficult circumstances.

Now that she lost people who didn't like her to begin with are taking advantage of the defeat to belittle her and pile it on.

And, for the record, she did a lot right in 2008 too. People who run terrible campaigns don't get as large a share of the vote as she did. The only basis for claiming that she ran a horrible campaign is that, supposedly, as a former first lady she had a huge advantage. That wasn't true in 2008 and it wasn't true in 2016.