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In reply to the discussion: Democrats say they now know exactly why Clinton lost [View all]Buckeye_Democrat
(14,858 posts)... indicated it was dangerously close between Clinton and Trump. Perhaps that's the way this issue should be framed to get past some of the accusations of vote tampering?
The fact that someone as unqualified as Trump was even close in pre-election polls should make more Democrats question themselves.
I personally think many of those Obama-Trump voters simply didn't "like" her. She was the only candidate with higher than 50% unfavorable ratings late in the 2008 primaries too. A hypothetical election against McCain at that time showed her easily losing while Obama was ahead by about the same margin as the actual results months later.
She's been the target of the right-wing for many years, and there's many voters who will think "where there's smoke there's fire" after being deluged by it for so many years.