How did the Democratic Party lose so bad?

[UCmeNdc]

What really went wrong in the counting of the votes?

[putitinD]

1. they rigged the vote in WI, MI, and PA

[BainsBane]

6. It's not looking that way

Trump has actually picked up votes in the WI recount.

[putitinD]

7. Detroit has 59% broken machines. that have been broken for 7 years

[BainsBane]

8. Yes, I read that

and the MI recount may stop because the court ruled Stein doesn't have standing under MI law as an aggrieved party.

[Amishman]

14. Not this again. Go read what was 'broken' and the possible impact on the vote

The cliff notes version is ballot scanners had feed problems and some ballots had to be run more than once. The possible outcome is that some ballots may have been counted more than once.

Since this is in blue Detroit, this could have given Hillary extra votes.

[jonno99]

2. MI, WI, PA - too many voters in these states had a hissy fit. nt

[portlander23]

3. Practice

And voter suppression.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

4. Voter suppression, FBI, fake news

Many here cant seem to explain why Russ feingold lost though.

[Rex]

5. Nothing, we had more votes. The EC decided Trump would be the POTUS.

Nothing stopped the popular vote from winning, except for the EC which did not align with traditional voting practices. I think the bullshit with the FBI did not help nor did 13 completely bullshit investigations while HRC was running for office.

What really went wrong is we have a corrupt system that needs a huge overhall. The entire system.

[Budee]

9. Blame the candidate not the FBI

Nobody forced HRC to have a private email server in her own home. Nobody forced HRC to do speeches for six figures. Nobody forced HRC to solicit donations to her own private charity from the same people that would benefit from her becoming president.

The optics looked bad because there was a reason for them to look bad. Maybe you will explain away why nothing I bring up matters. But tell the average person you know a candidate for president is going to do a series of speeches. And each one brings in more more money than they earn in a whole year.. Now tell them in no way is it a pay to play scheme that is essentially a bribe for access. Go ahead and tell me how many average voters think something is fishy. And oh yeah, tell them that this person is for the little guy.

[uponit7771]

11. Not when the FBI played a factor... not when VS played a role, not when Russia was cited ....

... those are 3 things that are not in dispute

[NWCorona]

12. Not many people have been as hard on Hillary about the server than me here

But I'll be the first to say that the Comey letter was devastating and unnecessary other than to cause damage to Hillary's campaign.

[uponit7771]

10. Comey, Voter suppression, Russia...

[dawg]

13. We didn't.

We barely lost the Presidency. We picked up seats in the House and the Senate.

It sucks that we didn't win. But we'd be foolish to react as if we got blown away. Because we didn't.

[duffyduff]

15. This. Nt

[GummyBearz]

16. Does that imply...

Does that imply our voters got out for the senate/house, but they just were not enthusiastic enough to vote for the presidential candidate?

[dawg]

17. No.

In some of the swing states, our other candidates under-performed Hillary.

But we did pick up seats this election, so it would be foolish for us to assume there was a wholesale rejection of our party.