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In reply to the discussion: So, who has read SHATTERED yet? [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)not so much.
I mean, everyone who has made it past a Mike Pence, Sunday School level understanding of reality understands the multifaceted nature of causuality. So there were multiple factors, and the book's authors themselves pretty explicitly state that Comey's letter a week out from the election (and, paradoxically, his "exoneration" a couple days later, which didn't help Hillary's numbers but arguably just enraged and energized more Trumpkins) quite clearly took the wind out of the sails of the campaign and, according to the data, swung the percentages enough to lose the thing.
So as much as "one singular cause" being posited, the book lays that one out.
But the central point of this book is not "what caused Hillary to lose the election" so much as "what happened, what was the story, what were the dynamics, what were the successes and what were the mistakes?"