2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Joe Biden: Hillary lost partly due to lack of outreach to those affected by globalization [View all]still_one
(96,577 posts)which MSNBC promptly reported as breaking news: "Email investigation has been reopened". THAT WAS A LIE. MSNBC then proceed to parade every right wing politician across their screen to reinforce that LIE. About an hour later CNN, and the other networks followed with the same LIE. This went on for several days.
Three days later when things started to calm down slightly, Bret Baier from fox news, reported, "From his sources in the FBI an indictment against the Clinton Foundation was about to occur". That was also a LIE. Google news, and other news outlets picked up that story. 48 hours later Bret Baier apologized, and said his information was wrong, and there was no pending indictment against the Clinton Foundation. That of course did stop fox news, the trump campaign, or other outlets from continuing to repeat the LIE.
Before the Comey interference, Hillary was doing ok in the polls, especially in the swing state polls. After the Comey interference, the poll numbers dropped significantly.
Russ Feingold lost, Zyper Teachout lost, and every swing state Democratic running for Senate lost against the establishment republican incumbent.
Then there was the case of those self-identified progressives who refused to vote for Hillary.
In Michigan, Hillary lost by .3%. Jill Stein received 1.1% of the vote.
Similar things occurred in Wisconsin, and other critical states.
Then there was a consorted effort to suppress the vote.
The Supreme Court struck down Section 4(b) of the voting rights act as unconstitutional in its June 25, 2013 ruling.
Before the 2016 election 14 states added restrictive voting law requirements aimed primarily toward people of color. This was a direct result of the Supreme Court decision striking down of a key section of the Voting Rights Act.
This really isn't rocket science