General Discussion
Showing Original Post only (View all)Democrats say they now know exactly why Clinton lost [View all]
A select group of top Democratic Party strategists have used new data about last years presidential election to reach a startling conclusion about why Hillary Clinton lost. Now they just need to persuade the rest of the party theyre right.
Many Democrats have a shorthand explanation for Clintons defeat: Her base didnt turn out, Donald Trumps did and the difference was too much to overcome.
But new information shows that Clinton had a much bigger problem with voters who had supported President Barack Obama in 2012 but backed Trump four years later.
Those Obama-Trump voters, in fact, effectively accounted for more than two-thirds of the reason Clinton lost, according to Matt Canter, a senior vice president of the Democratic political firm Global Strategy Group. In his groups analysis, about 70 percent of Clintons failure to reach Obamas vote total in 2012 was because she lost these voters.
In recent months, Canter and other members of Global Strategy Group have delivered a detailed report of their findings to senators, congressmen, fellow operatives and think tank wonks all part of an ongoing effort to educate party leaders about what the data says really happened in last years election.
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article147475484.html