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

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99. Nice try

That started way back when Vince Foster died. The GOP has been singing that song on and off for a couple of decades. The Benghazi hearings weren't because of Bernie. Neither was the fuss over her emails. Heck, he tried to END that part. Primaries are always tough. Obama was hard on her too. Progressive opposition to Hillary dates back to the Iraq vote. And Hillary's negatives predate Berni's entrance into the race at all.

She lost because of things like NAFTA and the TPP. She lost because she's a main line democrat in a time when the lower middle class white voter only was focused on jobs and the economy. She lost because Obama saved the bankers straight out of the gate (and the top 20%) and watched as the lower middle class lost their homes and their jobs and struggle for 8 more years. The democratic party has abandoned the lower middle class and labor unions for the better part of 30 years. That isn't Hillary's fault alone. To a great degree, she had very little direct hand in it at all. Rumors had her furious with her husband over some of the things done, especially to children. But she inherited a democratic party that was committed to markets and investment, and thought that in exchange, they could do things for children, and minorities, and the LGBT community.

They got the balance wrong.