2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Ezra Klein: Democrats don't need to convert Trump supporters [View all]still_one
(97,627 posts)14 states who implemented new voter laws, targeted mostly at minority voters, along with the social media's proliferation of fake-news, and actually lying from the MSM 11 days before the election.
When Comey released the letter to the republicans in congress, the first network to LIE about that letter was MSNBC. They had it as "breaking news: email investigation reopened". That was a LIE. For the next hour, MSNBC paraded every right wing politician across their screen to perpetuate that LIE. Soon the other network lemmings followed with the same lie. Just as things were starting to quiet down, fox news bret baier came out and said "due to his inside sources within the FBI, an imminent indictment was going to happen against the Clinton Foundation". That also was a LIE. For 48 hours, that LIE went out from Google News, social media, and other outlets. Then Mr. Baier came out and apologized, and said he made a mistake, their was no indictment against the Clinton Foundation. Rachel Maddow on MSNBC was so overcome by bret baier's apology, that she told her viewers that Mr. Baier was such a good reporter because he admitted a mistake and apologized for it. However, that didn't stop fox from continuing the LIE, or the other outlets.
but a funny thing happened. In spite of all the lies, distortions, and double standards used against Hillary, she won the popular vote.
Because of that perversion in our republic, it is the red states that determine the election. That was what the whole concept of Nixon's southern strategy was about
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