Why did Hilary lose the 2016 election?

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Why did Hilary lose?

  1. Sexism?

    2 vote(s)
    2.9%
  2. Elitism?

    2 vote(s)
    2.9%
  3. Bad campaign?

    17 vote(s)
    24.6%
  4. Personality?

    17 vote(s)
    24.6%
  5. Clinton scandals?

    14 vote(s)
    20.3%
  6. Other?

    17 vote(s)
    24.6%
  1. Bluesguy

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    I've seen no evidence of it.
     
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    Trump was wise to stay out of Kalifornia in 2016. You aren't going to catch fish by throwing your line in a stopped-up toilet.

    [​IMG] . Welcome to Kalifornia! "Abandon all hope ye who enter here." - Dante, "The Divine Comedy"
     
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    You're not looking very hard. :)
     
  4. Bluesguy

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    Everyday.
     
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    She ran a poor campaign and he had a lot going against her thanks in no small part to Russian efforts.
     
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    With propaganda and all out inlet agencies agree.

    Face it, your orange idol is not legitimate. Even if the Russians had secured a majority of the votes for him which even they could not.
     
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    He's not mine I didn't vote for him, the Russian attempts to influence me were utter failures. Did they influence you? Did you vote for Trump based on what the Russians told you? Can you cite where Mueller or even Comey said that the Russian attempts to influence the election worked and had a measurable effect?
     
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    Which Russian effort worker and who said so? What about the attempts toward Trump's campaign?
     
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    I’d vote for 2 thru six if you allowed multiple answers on your poll.

    Clinton does project a air of elitism. That’s not a uncommon trait for bubble dwellers such as herself.
    Not only did Clinton lack a positive message, the message she did have sucked. Her campaign slogan was enough to make me wanna puke. “I’m with Her”, the sense of entitlement is unnerving.
    Her personality is as shrill, as it is fake.
    As hard as her the democrats tried denying that there was a email scandal, there was a scandal.
    Clinton was a subpar status quo candidate in a change election. It’s as simple as that. Add the historical trend that the two parties have only got a third term in the White House a handful of times.
     
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    Comey and Russia helped Trump win

    that said, Hillary still got Millions more votes then Trump....

    affirmative action for the smaller states is why Trump won with millions less votes... Trump is an affirmative action President
     
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    I agree. Her thinking she is above the law and all knowing was a big part.
     
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    Russians didn't change anyones votes. They also didn't keep people away from the polls.

    Hillary campaigned in one state pretty much. And boy did she lock up California.
     
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    LOL!
     
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    'Russia' had a microscopic effect, if ANY. Nobody gets their 'opinions' from social media but phone-pawing morons....

    Comey? He bent over backwards and kissed his heels letting Hillary off the hook for her OBVIOUS crimes against national security and classified information. At the very LEAST, she should have been charged for her crimes against the handling of classified information!

    And, as for your unhappiness about the Electoral College (only noted when one political party doesn't like the election results)... SO AMEND THE CONSTITUTION TO GET RID OF IT, or go have a tantrum about something else....
     
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    All in all the election was her entitlement oyster, a certainty. But she was lazy and remiss competing against the hardest working man in politics.
     
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    She made assumptions about how it was "her turn" to be president, along with overestimating the importance of having a vagina! Perhaps her worst "Achilles Heel" was in actually believing her own doctrinaire, America-hating bullshit, and the appeal to the American middle-class of having her corrupt, stupid ass installed in the White House to administer some kind of "Obama 2.0" methodology....

    What's truly pathetic? All she really needed to do to win was to promise lots MORE 'free stuff'. When you mash all the bullshit out of it, that's what hyperliberal Democrats respond to more readily than anything else -- LOTS AND LOTS OF FREE STUFF! Brings them out in droves every time!

    She was so egocentric and delusional that she really thought it was "all about her". :roflol: But if she'd harped on a 'Socialism-lite' line emphasizing that a vote for Hillary meant that all these Millennials and Gen Z'er's wouldn't ever have to work another day in their useless, parasitic lives, SHE'D HAVE WON IN A LANDSLIDE! :hippie:
     
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    Sitting on her hind end for 75 days straight with no public appearances didn't help either.

    People began to wonder if she was healthy, if she was up to the job.
     
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    You have surely identified a key tactical move she failed to make -- involving consistency of effort. Still, she could have been laying around on her ample ass, in another swoon back at the mansion, BUT, issuing more promises about "free stuff" -- and if she'd kept that mantra going hot-and-strong right up to election day, she'd have won!

    My guess is that this is an object-lesson that hasn't been wasted on Jolly Joe Biden or any other current Democrat 'contender'....
     
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    75 days? isn't that about the length of a detox/rehab stint?
     
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    Trump lost by around 3 million votes and only won critical states by a few thousand votes... the election was so close that yes, those small influences could change an election like this

    not hardly, Comey was a republican and choose to blab about Clinton's case and conceal about Trump's investigation

    can you imagine the outrage if Obama lost the popular vote but still won... I can

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    I'm telling you sincerely (and it makes me sick to have to realize it), but all ANY of the Democrat candidates has to do to win in 2020 is promise more FREE STUFF to the bust-out, parasitic masses than any of his/her competitors!

    Americans became conditioned fully after eight years of Obamanite "Socialism-lite" to expect more and more of more and more of what they want from THE GOVERNMENT. The next President of the United States will be the one who emerges as the best pimping whore-master in a pile of pandering, America-hating, wanna-be Socialists....

    And our opponents in Russia and China are watching every minute of this disgusting process with rapt, focused attention....

    upload_2019-5-1_9-29-17.png . "So, will they have their next civil war before they go bankrupt, or afterwards...?"
     
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    Free stuff is an all-consuming lie. I hope you're wrong.
     
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    republican promise goodies to the rich, democrats promise goodies to the working class
     
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    And Bernie got way more votes in the primary than Hillary. Seems to me she got what she deserved.
     
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    This should have been a multiple selections poll.
    It was a combination of bad campaigning, horrible personality, her reaction to Bill's Scandals, and her deplorables comment.
     

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