Did Hillary Clinton lose because she was forced too far to the Left?

[Tom Rinaldo]

90. I prefer to give Hillary credit for standing behind her words

She is a tough negotiator, that is part of what would have made her an excellent president. Her team looked hard at every word in that platform before signing off on it. In the real world people have grown tired of politicians who say one thing but mean another, who say one thing to win elections, but do something contrary once in office. Both teams worked hard to find acceptable common ground with that platform. Hillary called herself a pragmatic progressive, and she put her pragmatic stamp on that progressive document. I think pushing a platform which she agreed to works well in the real world, people are tired of not really knowing where politicians stand, and to Hillary's full credit she did not run away from her platform in the slightest. The only area of possible dispute is whether she stressed it often enough.