2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Things I Blame For Hillary Clintons Loss, Ranked (Huff Po) [View all]exboyfil
(18,007 posts)such as Chelsea. I responded at the time to that thread as well. One example is Hillary was not in Steven's Point on Oct. 25th - she was in Florida. It was Chelsea in Steven's Point.
http://wdez.com/news/articles/2016/oct/26/chelsea-clinton-hits-uw-stevens-point/
Still if her people were saying it was in the bag, it was not entirely her fault. I always questioned the time she took in Arizona for example, but hindsight is easy.
Even though I don't put too much stock in popular vote (it would have been an entirely different campaign under those conditions, it is hard to argue with 2% more popular vote). The thing to remember is that, in addition to proving job prospects for rural areas in these states, you can also work on the urban areas that did not turn out as we would have liked (Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Detroit). A job's focus should include both.