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

[zipplewrath]

74. The candidate is blameless?

I agree with most of your points. But it can't be ignored that we picked a nominee with huge negatives. And the party has been ignoring the lower middle class through the last two Dem Presidents. We saved the bankers, and their bonuses, but although we "saved" the auto industry, there has still been a slow bleed of the associated manufacturing jobs. And we have allowed the decline of the unions and did little to address that through two administrations.

Trump lied like a rug about his ability to do anything about these problems, but he spoke to them. We picked a candidate that was playing catch up on the TPP and trade in general, not to mention had all of those "hidden" speeches. The democrats have been exposing their flank with the blue collar voters and I've been waiting for some GOP candidate to figure that out. I just never anticipated it'd be Hughey P. Long.