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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]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)There was no area anywhere in the country where any significant number of Republican women was ever even going to consider not voting for Trump. The "moderate Republican women in the suburbs" never existed.
We should have called it out...but it was never going to be enough to put us over the top.
It was the focus of much of the ad campaign, and a number of other posters in this thread(some of whom were HRC supporters from the get-go)have said the same.
Look, I WANTED HRC to win in the fall. I was as horrified by the result as you were.
What I'm saying is that some of the choices made by the Clinton-Kaine campaign-choices that were a reversion to the default choices our party has consistently made in non-Obama fall campaigns since at least 1976, in most cases-did her a disservice.
It's not about saying she shouldn't have been nominated(I accept the results of the primaries and endorsed HRC shortly before the convention). It's about arguing for better choices.