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kerouac2

(449 posts)
Sun Jan 22, 2017, 12:05 AM Jan 2017

Can't help but wonder: what if today's marches were pre-election?


Would it have made a difference?

I still think the media's calling it for Hillary with such assurance was the difference... but today was so moving, I have to wonder...
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Can't help but wonder: what if today's marches were pre-election? (Original Post) kerouac2 Jan 2017 OP
what if they were not and things were changed at the local level. juxtaposed Jan 2017 #1
Everybody thought Hillary would win - the polls, the pundits, The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2017 #2
But there should have been and would have been if... kerouac2 Jan 2017 #4
It was Comey's/FBI interference. This isn't rocket science still_one Jan 2017 #3

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,656 posts)
2. Everybody thought Hillary would win - the polls, the pundits,
Sun Jan 22, 2017, 12:10 AM
Jan 2017

the bettors, most of us. There wouldn't have been much motivation for those huge demonstrations before the election because women's rights would not have been endangered by her presidency.

kerouac2

(449 posts)
4. But there should have been and would have been if...
Sun Jan 22, 2017, 12:19 AM
Jan 2017

the MSM - and many of us here - weren't looking at the predictions.

Hillary was out there picking her cabinet weeks before the election.

Dumping money into Georgia.

Talking about down-ticket and taking seats.

The marches today are great, but it won't change a single thing Trump will do.

And now that they don't need 60 votes, we're pretty screwed...
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