2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: So, Hillary had Russian intelligence, the leader of the FBI, Trump/GOP, the Media, Bernie or Busters [View all]stevenleser
(32,886 posts)1. How is that Bill Clinton gets impeached and his approval ratings go up?
A. Because he was six years into a successful Presidency where the economy was booming and foreign relations were doing well. There is nothing like success to beat back your critics.
2. If Bill could do that, then why couldn't Hillary turn the email issue around on Republicans?
A. See my answer to #1. If she had been six years into a successful Presidency it would have been no problem.
3. How can President Obama win without the PUMAss voters, but Hillary couldn't win without the BoBs?
A. Obama had a massively failing Republican President to hang around his GOP opponents neck. We could have run Ted Bundy and won.
4. How did President Obama win MI, PA, and WI being an African-American and the tea toddlers calling him a Muslim, but Hillary could not?
A. See my answer to #3.
5. I've said it before and I'll say it again, popular vote doesn't matter. That's the equivalent of someone arguing that their team should world champions because they have more fans despite the fact they lost the required points needed to win. Why should I care about the popular vote when we all knew the rules going in.
A. If fundamental principles like Democracy are important to you, then the popular vote getter in an election should matter. If those things aren't important to you, then you might be able to brush it off.