2016 Postmortem

I think that Hillary had a lot going against her for sure, but I do think that somethings could have been handled a lot better.

I think one of the major problems in our country is the role of the media and how bad journalism has gotten. They no longer seem to care what the actual truth is, or what actually happened. Most media including stuff written by the left has become opinion pieces written as fact. There are very few in depth story's and very little digging and now it has become one place reporting on something, and the rest parroting the same thing with a slightly different spin on it just to stay relevant. I personally think that they should just report the news as the news, and let the viewer make up their mind about what was reported.

One personal thing I noticed was Hillary's reluctance to allow the media into the campaign, or to allow them to participate. Now this can be explained by the constant hounding from her day's as First Lady and the role the media played in Bill's impeachment but at some point she had to realize the affects of that.

By her doing stuff like roping off the media and not wanting to do any press conferences left her having to constantly defend against speculation, instead of being able to convey her message. I want you to imagine a different scenario for a second.

When she was feeling ill, instead of not telling the press and having a huge uproar about her health and so on what if she had instead dominated to conversation a different way. What if she had said "I am sick with pneumonia and not feeling great, but out of respect for the heroic citizens who died on this terrible day, I am going to be making an appearance anyways, because as a strong woman I can't take a day off and must soldier on!" The entire narrative would have changed and anyone questioning her dedication would be shown for what they are.

Dumbf dominated the airwaves because he was usually the only one who was speaking to the press (however disgusting the reason). If she had done the same, and used the media to broadcast her message a lot more people would have heard it. She could have spent the same time that she spent rebuking the deplorable to enhance her vision. She should have said "While my opponent said *insert deplorable thing here* I rebuke that and want to tell you that my plan is better because *xyz*

There were a lot of missed opportunity's one of which was spending so much time fund raising in private instead of doing rally's and talking to people directly. She came off as wanting to please the donor class and not give the people what they wanted which was an alternative to Dumbf.

Again this is just my opinion as uneducated as it may be. Happy Holidays everyone!