2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I grew up in a very red, rural community in the midwest. [View all]Cha
(305,414 posts)on election night.. like someone close to us had actually passed on.. in my case and others I've heard and read about.
There are several contributing factors.. the hate on Hillary and lies drilled into the viewers for over a year enabled by the m$m and whomever else contributed.
The Russian hacking and wikileaks kept the m$m busy sensationalizing that while they were busy making drumpf seem normal and making racism ok and his being a sexual predator not that big of a BFD.
The Voter Suppession and Voter purging was substantial.. I read it was larger than drumpf's win in some states like Wisconsin.
And, I wanted to say one more thing about the "Where there's smoke there's fire" people..
That's a copout .. it only means they're letting someone else do their thinking for them. Lazy.. they don't want to think for themselves.