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2016 Postmortem

mythology

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6. I think Silver is right

Reply to uponit7771 (Original post)

Tue Dec 27, 2016, 03:16 PM

Dec 2016

Effectively the election for President turned on the second Comey announcement. That could have been avoided if Clinton never had that stupid email server in the first place.

But that doesn't provide us with a solution for the down ticket races.

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NOTE:......FACT BASED..conclusions on Comey, Voter suppression Russia effect [View all] uponit7771 Dec 2016 OP

Could be fairly accurate. triron Dec 2016 #1

I agree even half of 4℅ is still accurate uponit7771 Dec 2016 #3

A coup in other words. libtodeath Dec 2016 #2

Yup, a coup that it'll be especially difficult to ever recover from. ffr Dec 2016 #4

I don't see them getting to the actual votes... nor simply swinging ALL those dionysus Dec 2016 #5

I think Silver is right mythology Dec 2016 #6

It would have been something else... I don't believe for a second that anyone else would've won uponit7771 Dec 2016 #7

Kicking this...seeing a ton of "If Hillary did this" analysis as if there was no Russian hacking DNC uponit7771 Jan 2017 #8

Comey, Putin were large players period. Prediction: Best selling oasis Jan 2017 #9