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In reply to the discussion: You know what's really sad? Hillary would have been an excellent POTUS. [View all]Proud Liberal Dem
(24,406 posts)49. IKR?
So would Gore. So would Kerry. I am baffled at why so many voters in this country too often vote so stupidly and so totally against their own best interests- and too often for stupid, superficial reasons. I know that voters aren't always the problem and that Republicans cheat using a variety of tactics and Greens help spoil on some occasions, but the cheating and spoiling is at its most effective when the races are so close.
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You know what's really sad? Hillary would have been an excellent POTUS. [View all]
Vinca
Aug 2018
OP
Agree! It would have been a constant battle... she would have risen to the challenges
Thekaspervote
Aug 2018
#28
And she would have been an excellent prersident, regardless. It is a tragedy it didn't happen
lunamagica
Aug 2018
#17
Except for one big difference. If those self-identified progressives who refused to vote for the
still_one
Aug 2018
#31
I believe 2004 was stolen, too. Obama's landslides was probably bigger than we know, too--
tblue37
Aug 2018
#23
Me, when I think about what we could have had with Hillary vs. what we have with (t)rump.
Different Drummer
Aug 2018
#8
Correct. And it will keep happening as long as we keep allowing it to happen
lunamagica
Aug 2018
#29
no. We lost because some arragant self-identifed progressives decided NOT to vote for the
still_one
Aug 2018
#32
"Hillary is history." No. Jimmy Carter and his Habitat for Humanity, Bill Clinton and
betsuni
Aug 2018
#41
You're right, Hillary Clinton IS history - the first woman from a major party to run for President..
George II
Aug 2018
#60
Yeah. I was just goofing. Seeing real issues addressed would be pretty exhilarating.
argyl
Aug 2018
#44
It would have been an absolute nightmare. Some thing we would and wouldn't have with Clinton.
NCTraveler
Aug 2018
#57