2016 Postmortem

I think that Obama was a once in a lifetime President. And I apologize if this offends the OP as that is not my intention. I just thing that the entire reason we have a postmortem is to dissect what went wrong.

Don't get me wrong, I voted Hillary and my state went for her but there were some serious problems that should be addressed. I think that to pretend like there were no problems is a disservice to the Democratic party and will only set us up for failure.

I have said this before and I will repeat it.

The FBI would have NEVER been an issue for her, had she used a State Department email account. Had she turned over the entire 60,000 emails to the FBI from day one on the condition that her private emails not be released, she would have never appeared to be hiding something. Had she taken the thing serious from day one, and not be flippant about the entire thing and she would not have been viewed as reckless or whatever else people said.

That was partially why when she was ill, and fell on Sept. 11 it became a huge deal. It again looked like she was lying about her health. She had the opportunity to get in front of that, and chose not to.

She chose to spend more time talking about Trump's negatives than her own message and vision for America. In my state all the ad's that ran were extremely negative.

There were a lot of mistakes and miscalculations made, but hindsight is also 20 20 and it's easy to Monday morning quarterback.

The Wikileaks emails played a part sure, but there was a reason Dumbf won. The lead in the popular vote is often cited, but the fact is that Hillary won CA by 4 Million votes. Dumbf won the rest of the country by 2 million votes. THAT is a major problem and glossing over it does not help us dissect the reason that we lost.

I just pray that we can figure out exactly what went wrong before 2020 because 2018 does not look pretty either and Mid terms never seem to registrar on the average person's radar.

I hope you all have a happy holidays!