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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHillary Clinton Really Shouldnt Have Told Voters That Trump Wasnt a Normal Republican
Hillary Clinton Really Shouldnt Have Told Voters That Trump Wasnt a Normal RepublicanEric Levitz
New York Magazine
After all, throughout the Republican primary, Trump had branded himself as a nationalist unconstrained by fealty to conservative dogma. At various points, he feigned openness to raising taxes on plutocrats and increasing the minimum wage a heresy he explained by declaring, Im very different from most Republicans.
A considerable amount of Clintons paid media was devoted to affirming this claim.
And a growing body of evidence suggests this was a bad mistake.
This notion that Donald Trump does not share Paul Ryans ideology was indispensable to the formers victory: Trump simply could not have won without the support of white Democrats who have little affection for GOP orthodoxy.
Synthesizing data from voting returns, exit polls, the census, and preelection polling, the Upshots Nate Cohn concludes that Clinton did not lose because Rust Belt Democrats stayed at home, but rather, because they voted for Trump in large numbers.
Many of these voters were Obama supporters in 2008 and 2012 in fact, 19 percent of white working-class Trump voters said they approved of Obamas performance on November 8 of 2016. Ten percent of these voters told exit pollsters that they wanted Trump to continue Obamas policies, while 38 percent said they hoped he would pursue policies that were more liberal than Obamas.
But the fact remains: Clinton lost the White House because a bunch of white Democrats who despise most of the GOP agenda but like the cut of Trumps jib decided to cross the aisle.
Some of these voters may learn that Trump is a regular Republican the hard way by losing access to their health care or local Planned Parenthood. But many will not.
A considerable amount of Clintons paid media was devoted to affirming this claim.
And a growing body of evidence suggests this was a bad mistake.
This notion that Donald Trump does not share Paul Ryans ideology was indispensable to the formers victory: Trump simply could not have won without the support of white Democrats who have little affection for GOP orthodoxy.
Synthesizing data from voting returns, exit polls, the census, and preelection polling, the Upshots Nate Cohn concludes that Clinton did not lose because Rust Belt Democrats stayed at home, but rather, because they voted for Trump in large numbers.
Many of these voters were Obama supporters in 2008 and 2012 in fact, 19 percent of white working-class Trump voters said they approved of Obamas performance on November 8 of 2016. Ten percent of these voters told exit pollsters that they wanted Trump to continue Obamas policies, while 38 percent said they hoped he would pursue policies that were more liberal than Obamas.
But the fact remains: Clinton lost the White House because a bunch of white Democrats who despise most of the GOP agenda but like the cut of Trumps jib decided to cross the aisle.
Some of these voters may learn that Trump is a regular Republican the hard way by losing access to their health care or local Planned Parenthood. But many will not.
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Hillary Clinton Really Shouldnt Have Told Voters That Trump Wasnt a Normal Republican (Original Post)
portlander23
Dec 2016
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Me.
(35,454 posts)1. A Non·sen·si·cal Article
kcr
(15,522 posts)2. Right. She should have totally told them he's a great guy.
And would make a wonderful president, and normalized that pussy grabbing. No way you guys would have made an issue out of that.
YoungDemCA
(5,714 posts)3. That's what you got out of this article?
I guess you can lead a horse to water, but...
JTFrog
(14,274 posts)4. Blah blah fucking blah. Give it a rest already. Let's talk about what Bernie, Comey and the Media
should have done. Let's talk about the fuckers who sat in a room and decided to squelch information about Trump and Russia yet release fake news about Hillary.
Those are the only fucking valid issues at this point.
If I see one more fucking post about what Hillary should have done to win by more than the 3 million votes she won by, I am just going to lose it.
Just fucking give it a rest.