Ten Reasons Why Hillary lost - And they are probably not what you thought

[Retrograde]

47. Disagree about #7

IMHO, Sanders' showing - especially in the Midwest - was a symptom of dissatisfaction with the DNC candidate that was as far as I can tell given short shrift after Clinton got the nomination. While I think that Sanders would have been creamed in a GE, the mere fact he was running and did so well was a sign that a lot of people, the ones we needed, were not happy about Clinton being rammed down their throats as inevitable. He brought up a lot of baggage, such as the Wall Street speeches, that stuck and secured Clinton's image as an Eastern insider.

As much as we laugh at it, Trump's red hat sent a subliminal message to blue color voters: I may have been born with a silver foot in my mouth, and I've got more money and stuff that you can imagine, but deep-down I'm just an Ordinary Joe who knows how to get his hands dirty.