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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Things I Blame For Hillary Clintons Loss, Ranked (Huff Po) [View all]Omaha Steve
(103,529 posts)59. Rewriting history?
Donate to the recount fund!
Maybe IF she donated her Wall St fees to jobs programs since she never released a transcript. Put that down as reason #1.
Maybe Bernie prepared her for this...
BERNIE SANDERS GOES ALL IN FOR HILLARY CLINTON: http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/bernie-sanders-goes-all-in-for-hillary-clinton
By John Cassidy , JULY 26, 2016
When Bernie Sanders walked out to address the Democratic National Convention, on Monday night, at Philadelphias Wells Fargo Center, which normally serves as home to the N.B.A.s hapless 76ers, he was fully aware that many of his supporters were ready for a fight. Earlier in the day, when the Vermont senator had appeared for a pre-D.N.C. event at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, he had been roundly booed after suggesting that it was time for the Party to unite around Hillary Clinton. He had then texted an appeal to some of his supporters: I ask you as a personal courtesy to me not to engage in any kind of protest on the floor. Its of utmost importance you explain this to your delegations.
As the D.N.C. got started, in the mid-afternoon, the pastor who read the opening prayer, the Reverend Dr. Hale, was also interrupted with boos, as well as some cheers, when she mentioned Clintons name. No organized protest materialized, but from there, the proceedings degenerated into something of a shouting match, with Sanders supporters, particularly some from the California delegation, trying to drown out the speakers with shouts like Bernie! Bernie! Bernie! and We want Bernie! Marcia Fudge, the Ohio congresswoman who, on short notice, replaced Debbie Wasserman Schultz as the chair of the Convention, was moved to remark, We are all Democrats, and we need to act like it.
The heckling continued nonetheless. Even Senator Elizabeth Warren, who spoke after Michelle Obamas much-lauded address, and who has long been a favorite of progressives, wasnt spared. As Warren appealed to the crowd to work hard for a Clinton victory in November, there were angry chants of We trusted you! We trusted you! One woman shouted, You sold your birthright for a bowl of porridge.
Sanders may have feared that he would receive similar treatment, for there was little doubt about what he would say. Shortly before his speech, his wife, Jane, spoke with NBC News, invoking Sanderss endorsement of Clinton two weeks earlier at Portsmouth High School. I think you heard him, in New Hampshire, give a full-throated endorsement. Hell continue to do that today, she said. Pressed on what, if anything, she and her husband could do to rein in their supporters, she said, We cant tell people what to do. We dont want to tell people what to do. We want to engage them.
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Young people, as a percentage, voted for Clinton in higher percentages than did
ProfessorPlum
Dec 2016
#17
Sanders wasn't the problem, it was many of his supporters who did call her corrupt right here and
Hoyt
Dec 2016
#76
Using a narrative and using a word are two different concepts. Learn, please.
LanternWaste
Dec 2016
#117
When will people realize hillary is less than 1% beind Obama's 2012 results?
lunamagica
Dec 2016
#77
Agreed. And even at her nominating Convention he continued with the blackmail and running his own
politicaljunkie41910
Dec 2016
#86
Well, she was extremely popular as Secretary of State. She had some pretty amazing poll numbers
StevieM
Dec 2016
#96
Yep. And if you notice, the whole question of misogyny is not being discussed all that much.
Squinch
Dec 2016
#20
I do think that there is more misogyny of a certain sort in parts of America than in England
LeftishBrit
Dec 2016
#83
Hostility toward women was one of the strongest predictors of a Trump vote. So apparently, yes.
Squinch
Dec 2016
#110
The media should rank very high here. A competitive primary is a lame reason.
Lucky Luciano
Dec 2016
#23
People are sick at having the same families be president. The Clintons are annoying.
Gore1FL
Dec 2016
#38
Seems many are proving the points in the Article! The weird hate towards HRC seems based
Madam45for2923
Dec 2016
#42
"not a democrat" doesn't mean anything by itself. You want it to, but it doesn't. nt
JCanete
Dec 2016
#89
i rank sanders much lower on that list. I rank Comey much higher. nt
La Lioness Priyanka
Dec 2016
#71
YES! Lets keep it going people! One thing that is not going to die, while there is still a DNC
JCanete
Dec 2016
#87
Good news is that HRC won female Independents! Woohoo! Males Independt? Not so much! Trumpo did!
Madam45for2923
Dec 2016
#95
Don't think of HRC as incompetent at all! See her as brilliant, competent, knowledgeable,
Madam45for2923
Dec 2016
#106
Any *one* of the following could have been the difference between winning and losing:
Garrett78
Dec 2016
#105
Please proceed with blaming literally the most popular Politician in the United States. n/t
yodermon
Dec 2016
#107