Things I Blame For Hillary Clintons Loss, Ranked (Huff Po)

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47. Meh

He ran *against* her, naturally he's going to try and highlight differences. Essentially this is bashing him because he ran against her. This is as ludicrous as you can get and only promotes the idea of Hillary's supporters being a sore loser. No one gives him any credit for what he didn't do which was make it personal. He helped keep the primary focused on issues.

If you want to blame things, then blame the following:

1) The media who gave Trump a continuous free ride.

2) Hillary's campaign for - as stated in the article - taking the eyes off of the ball and not focusing on the Rust Belt.

3) The Democratic Party (including Hillary, Sanders, Obama, Debbie) for not challenging the huge voter purges and fraud being perpetrated at the state level by the GOP in the years and months leading up to the election.

4) Facebook and Twitter for allowing and promoting the existence of Fake News.

5) Hillary and her campaign for misunderstanding the dynamics of the election.

6) Debbie Wasserman Schulz for being the most lackluster DNC chair in recent memory. It was her clumsy machinations to game the election which caused a lot of grief inside the Democratic Party. She gave the impression of "backroom politics as usual" which turned off a lot of people who would have given some great energy to the Democratic cause.

I am not going to blame the US electorate for being uninformed, and in some cases bigoted (racist/misogynistic). It's a reality which we have to deal with to some degree.

I'm also not going to blame Hillary's character. I do believe her to be a great and well meaning person. However, it's very expensive to change first impressions and at this point, it's probably best to find the next face. And no, I do not think it's Bernie, my thoughts tend towards O'Malley and possibly Biden. There are a couple of years, so there is still time for someone to rise up with a good populistic and progressive message.

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