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2016 Postmortem

Hoyt

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4. At time Comey came out 11 days before election, Trump was dropping from vile comments on women.

Reply to portlander23 (Original post)

Tue Dec 27, 2016, 12:55 PM

Dec 2016

The Comey's new investigation changed the focus.

But, I agree that it shouldn't have been that close anyway. The election proved Americans -- particularly those susceptible to white wing dogma -- are much more racist/bigoted and ignorant than we thought.

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Did James Comey Cost Hillary Clinton The Election? [View all] portlander23 Dec 2016 OP

I don't think so. TheCowsCameHome Dec 2016 #1

Yes, even Hillary admits she made mistakes... you hafta give her credit for that! InAbLuEsTaTe Dec 2016 #3

False... Nate silver calculated a 4℅ me change after Comey uponit7771 Dec 2016 #10

Silver blew everything else, TheCowsCameHome Dec 2016 #12

Pollsters were wrong the entire year HoneyBadger Dec 2016 #13

How true. TheCowsCameHome Dec 2016 #14

Yes, they didn't factor in treason... I don't blame them for that uponit7771 Dec 2016 #17

What Shutt of Iowa and others like him don't realize First trump needs shraby Dec 2016 #2

At time Comey came out 11 days before election, Trump was dropping from vile comments on women. Hoyt Dec 2016 #4

"So many of us... decided to vote Trump just to stop Hillary." Tatiana Dec 2016 #5

Yes, but so did sexism, WikiLeaks, poor campaigning, and the alt right Amishman Dec 2016 #6

No question, and don't forget to add in repug vote suppression and tampering issuing . . . brush Dec 2016 #7

At least we now know pressbox69 Dec 2016 #8

Stopped at the guy who started feeling sypathetic for Trump because his victims spoke up. SaschaHM Dec 2016 #9

YES!!! Link inside uponit7771 Dec 2016 #11

It did not help Angry Dragon Dec 2016 #15

Given the huge differences between the two candidates it's hard to imagine someone being undecided jalan48 Dec 2016 #16