Hillary Lost Because ...

[JHan]

28. Frankly...

I can't criticize Hillary too much. I think, minus the arrogance of the campaign in August where they ignored Bill's advice to go back to the midwest and cement the firewall, she ran a great campaign- and I mean that..

She won all the debates - hands down. It was the first time in a long time, a candidates debate performance moved the needle on their trajectory towards the presidency.

It was a clean campaign for the most part.

She provided policy details, she was the only candidate with depth to her positions whether domestic or foreign.

Quite simply, she was up against unsurmountable odds. She represented the establishment everyone was fussing about because she was former SoS. After two terms of Obama, this was the chance for the Republicans to take the presidency.

She had to withstand attacks from within her party from the progressives, withstand attacks from the right. The poor reporting of the email controversy, despite her repeated apologies and explanations. And then the FOI requests for emails and subsequent release by Judicial Watch. Then Wikileaks came at her, and truly the moment when I became worried - Comey's letter.

No one is really delving into this but the week before Comey's letter, Hillary was moving upward beyond the margin of error, her email issues largely dismissed and the leaks from wiki not causing too much damage. Then Comey came along and it was a week of speculation and poor reporting, damaging leaks from the FBI by agents with an agenda and even whispers from former agents. It was even reported she could be indicted, Megyn Kelly asked if voters would feel comfortable electing someone who could be indicted while in office. It was a clusterfuck of a week, and would have reminded hedging democrats of Hillary's issues. Comey's second letter probably woke up Trump voters who thought it was DOJ and FBI corruption clearing Clinton. After a week of Trump selling the idea that maybe the FBI wasn't "rigged" and Hillary would be held accountable ( for crimes he made up out of thin air), plus all the other lies his surrogates were spreading, the second Comey letter would have motivated Trump voters to come out and vote HRC out.

Inspite all this she ran away with the popular vote and narrowly lost midwest swing states.

Still, this Election Cycle was rigged against one person - HRC.