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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Who should have been the democratic party nominee for president? [View all]
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(38,506 posts)106. Limberbutt McCubbins the Cat
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It would have been difficult to beat any of the last 3 GOP hopefuls. People forget how bad GOP
stevenleser
Nov 2016
#76
Biden, Bernie, or Elizabeth would of won easily... but, it was Hillary's turn and, as they say, the rest is history.
InAbLuEsTaTe
Nov 2016
#104
It's Bernie's turn, of course... just like it was Hillary's turn after she lost to Obama.
InAbLuEsTaTe
Dec 2016
#191
The one who won the primary by MILLIONS of votes. Really, you're going down this road?
MADem
Nov 2016
#4
The jury returned their verdict. It's over. It's done, she loss, move on. This is as pathetic as
Exilednight
Nov 2016
#49
I don't understand the recount due to the fact she will not get the required EVs.
Exilednight
Nov 2016
#65
Unfair as it is, with Republicans in control there will be no amendment to change the EC.
Exilednight
Nov 2016
#71
Hillary was chosen by 2,350,000 more voters than DT. (And her lead is still increasing.)
pnwmom
Nov 2016
#120
The 7 million third party votes had a huge impact. If about a hundred thousand of them in key states
pnwmom
Nov 2016
#171
If they were never going to vote for Hillary they were willing to let Trump win;
pnwmom
Nov 2016
#177
Any serious nomination challenge to Clinton would have been a bloodbath
Sen. Walter Sobchak
Nov 2016
#125
It wasn't just that we lost the election, it's because we nominated an establishment candidate
Exilednight
Nov 2016
#140
But gerrymandering DOES affect things like how many polling sites there are in a district,
LisaM
Nov 2016
#94
I actually refer to the little fuhrer as president Camacho sometimes too! nt
Lucky Luciano
Nov 2016
#146
Debbie Wassermann Schultz rigged it so Bernie was marginalized right from the beginning and
RKP5637
Nov 2016
#29
There's that "Southern states" horse shit again. Democrats in every state get to vote in the primary
BobbyDrake
Nov 2016
#30
Me too. They've earned a heaping serving of "Right back at you" from now on.
BobbyDrake
Nov 2016
#42
Minnesota doing well? The Rethugs just won control of both Chambers of the State
Grey Lemercier
Dec 2016
#193
Sadly, Hillary had a lot of baggage. I think Joe Biden would have done better. n/t
RKP5637
Nov 2016
#27
Sanders, of course. Don't confuse the DU consensus for the real world. n/t
lumberjack_jeff
Nov 2016
#40
I think Hillary could have won, if only she had treated the fall campaign as a partnership
Ken Burch
Nov 2016
#43
I know she said it there, Skinner. But after that, she never spoke like that again.
Ken Burch
Nov 2016
#68
Ooops. Good memory sir. That was in mid-July, Sanders finally "got out there".....
George II
Nov 2016
#72
If she had said anything close to this, we'd be looking at President-elect Clinton.
Tatiana
Nov 2016
#185
Considering how elections are won by 2016 standards, someone who is a bigger liar than Trump
mtnsnake
Nov 2016
#45
Hillary won the popular vote by a wider margin than any candidate, win or lose, since the 1870s
Squinch
Nov 2016
#47
Elizabeth Warren seems like an obvious answer, but she didn't want the job
geek tragedy
Nov 2016
#63
The Democrats were so stupid. If only they had nominated Kirill Shamalov, it would have been a
still_one
Nov 2016
#82
Joe Biden... most honest person in politics... he would have defeated any R...
MyNameIsKhan
Nov 2016
#84
What about Warren? She had all of Hillary's good points, but nothing Trump could attack her for.
Ken Burch
Nov 2016
#145
they didn't want a populist outsider. they wanted a bigot who would ban and kick out "those" people
JI7
Nov 2016
#156
Hillary Clinton. She was the best qualified for the job, and would have made an excellent president
lunamagica
Nov 2016
#121
Biden would have won. Sanders would have gotten crushed. Hillary was my 2nd choice. I had no 3rd.
Grey Lemercier
Nov 2016
#176
I'm concerned now about 2020 wondering who that might be! Trump was/is a superb con artist, but
RKP5637
Nov 2016
#179
As much as I am now coming down on the septuagenarians, I think Warren could have won.
randome
Nov 2016
#180
Senator Elizabeth Warren. She can speak to the Occupy Wall Street generation, she can get a crowd
Dems to Win
Nov 2016
#187
Personally I would have preferred Sanders- that's why I voted for him in the primary, of course- but
Warren DeMontague
Nov 2016
#189