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In reply to the discussion: Hillary Rodham Clinton ... [View all]The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,686 posts)she connected with a lot of them; almost 3 million more than Trump did. The problem is that most of those votes came out of California; and since we are stuck for the foreseeable future with the obsolete Electoral College, those votes did no good in getting her elected president. She lost three states - MI, WI and PA - by a total of less than 80,000 votes. Had she connected in those states with only 80,000 more voters she'd have won the election. So in my opinion it's a fair question to ask why she didn't get those votes in those states, which usually go Democratic.
I am not suggesting any specific reasons because I don't know any more than anyone else. It could have been Comey, the Russians, sexism, racism; any number of causes that have already been discussed to death, or most likely a combination of those reasons. But as long as we have the Electoral College it's a vain argument to insist that those 3 million votes, most of which came from a single state, were indicative of anything other than that she was very popular in California.
I think it is essential to examine objectively all possible factors, without bias, to figure out why one of the most qualified people ever to run for president was defeated by the absolute worst candidate ever. That should not have happened. We need to know why it did.