2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Eichenwald: The Myths Democrats Swallowed that Cost Them the Presidential Election [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Why did Hillary write off Wisconsin for months, assuming it was in the bag? Where was the enthusiastic turnout of Obama voters in rust belt states, after we were promised during the primaries how energized those people would be, for Hillary?
The numbers don't lie.
And yes, James Comey was a factor. So was a ridiculous media. And yes, so was voter suppression, "caging", all those tools in the GOP toolbox.
But Jill Stein? People who vote 3rd party waste their votes, but there is always a small percentage of them. Imagining that "this time" their votes belong to us, is folly. We need to win without those people. We need to be able to.
"Berniebros"? No, that shit isn't gonna fly. That's not going to explain why there was a red streak across the electoral map that just coincidentally happened to be the Rust Belt that HRC took for granted.
That happened to coincide with a perception that the candidate was out of touch with the economic concerns of people for whom the recovery never became much of a reality, but who appreciated the Auto Bailout and came out for Obama in 2012.
Her campaign was wildly out of touch, thinking that if it had Katy Perry and Beyonce it could forego formulating a cogent message to economically hurting people looking for more than just more of the same.