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In reply to the discussion: It would be nice if the centrists in this party did some introspection, too. [View all]davsand
(13,421 posts)Look, I voted for her. I did all I could for the entire ticket. Nobody gets to crank my tail that somehow, as a member of the Progressive wing of the party I am somehow at fault for who is residing in the Whitehouse right now. Clinton had the popular vote win, but managed to blow the strategy of winning the EC. THAT is the reality.
Yeah, there was fuckery in the election, and there was a lot of extraneous crap thrown at the 11th hour by Comey et al, but how in the name of god could anybody with her level of experience even be CLOSE in a race against an orange shit gibbon who bragged about assaulting women and incited violence at his campaign rallies? Had the campaign strategy been even halfway sound, that race should have been SO one sided that there was nothing possible to do to "fix" it.
Gore's race against Dubya was another example of this same failure. There was not enough of a clear distinction between the two candidates in either case. I still blame Donna Brazille for Gore's loss, but I honestly have no idea who was actually driving the Hillary bus this time. I'm afraid it was a bunch of that same crew in both campaigns, and I am terrified that unless we get some distance from that whole scene we are gonna be doomed to yet another disastrous loss next time.
YMMV, and I'm sure I'll be swarmed with hateful crap for saying it, but we have got to get to a new campaign model if Dem want to win.