Hillary Lost Because ...

[NanceGreggs]

165. Try reading for comprehension.

This piece is not about winning or losing. It's about attributing "right moves" and "wrong moves" to candidates after the fact.

For the sake of discussion, let's say that Hillary won the popular vote AND the EC. Everything that is being said about her now would be the exact opposite.

"She didn't connect with the voters" would now be "she obviously connected with the voters."

"She didn't campaign in the right states" would now be "she campaigned in all the right places, and it paid off for her."

"After 30 years in the public eye, she had too much 'baggage' to win" would now be "the voters really responded to her three decades of experience."

When Trump was declared the winner on election night, it took the MSM bobbleheads a matter of minutes before they were praising Kellyanne Conway's "brilliant" campaign strategy. Had Trump lost, they would have lost no time proclaiming her a know-nothing amateur, whose political ignorance probably cost him the election.

The fact that HRC won the popular vote is important, not because it meant a win or a loss, but because she was obviously the choice of the voters - which means she DID do all the right things in order to garner the majority of votes.

Were there no electoral college, Hillary would be the next POTUS. She lost because of an out-dated system that over-rides the will of the people, and not because she made all the "wrong" moves. As far as actual voters are concerned, HRC was THEIR choice, hands down. To now try to imply that she lost for any other reason is to completely dismiss the idea that actual voters should have the final say.

Just as a side note, it's been amusing to watch the "get rid of the oligarchs and let the PEOPLE decide" advocates now defending the idea that the electoral college should have the last word. As long as it means that HRC won't be the next prez, they're more than happy to go along with one of those "establishment" systems they previously railed against.

But then maybe there are other things at play here. Perhaps HRC lost because she's walking around in a body brace, the victim of at least a dozen diseases that she's been hiding from the public. Or maybe it was her "body double" who lost the election. Know what I mean, Vern?