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In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton ran a great campaign and I can prove it [View all]StevieM
(10,500 posts)HRC had a larger staff in Wisconsin than Obama did in 2012. She had an enormous ground operation in Pennsylvania.
Michigan may have had fewer, since there was no Senate race there. But winning Michigan would not have given her the votes she needed to win the election.
Where should she have pulled her troops from? Florida, which she came within a point of winning? Ohio, which was a traditional battleground state? You don't win elections by shrinking the map.
Besides, Trump had virtually no ground game at all.
Nobody let a computer decide, that is just a post-election talking point because it sounds fascinating to say.
You can make an argument that they should have immediately planned for disaster after Comey committed treason. But it is human nature not to be able to immediately accept the reality of such evil. And it is by no means clear that it would have made a difference.