2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Yes, Millennials also cost us the election. [View all]JHan
(10,173 posts)":Thousands of leaked emails showed the DNC was stacked. Cost the chairwoman and a CNN popular figure their jobs. IF the DNC had been neutral...say like having a like number of D debates as in 2008... Or the super delegates .. super delegates she spent millions on (and some still lost)... "
1) Those emails were from low-level DNC staffers miffed Sanders dared to sue the DNC for Clinton Data. It was a mess which got egg on everyone's faces. A lot of silly suggestions were made, most of which weren't followed through...Wasserman Schulz eventually fell on her sword.
2) The Debates fiasco over Brazille was exactly that - a fiasco that was overblown. CNN's outrage that questions got slipped to a political operative they hire as a commentator was disingenuous at best. There's always been collusion between the Media and Political Operatives, for mutually satisfying reasons having to do with access. Brazille wasn't the first, neither will she be the last. And I really doubt she was the only one to get hint of questions ahead of time this year. That this is still a story proves to me we can't see the forest for the trees. The lesson there wasn't Brazille and CNN but getting the debates out of the full control of networks and reforming the current format where candidates insist on conditions favorable to them, rather than the focus being on informing viewers of policy positions.
Also, Kurt Eichenwald did a good piece debunking a lot of the myths surrounding the great powerful DNC...
And there are lots of reasons Clinton lost those Obama counties , those reasons don't nullify anything I said in my post.