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2016 Postmortem

MyNameIsKhan

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12. Its difficult unless you have spoken to people whose jobs has been outsourced and they are in

Reply to bettyellen (Reply #11)

Wed Nov 16, 2016, 10:04 PM

Nov 2016

late 40's or early 50's... they blame the system for this, they donot want to retrain. HRC had very valid message about jobs but she spoke truth but this set of people want the same jobs back which we know will not happen. But the orange man made false promised and sold them snake oil.

And they were are already earning more than minimum wages.

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we lost just because of one message that other side had... jobs jobs jobs jobs [View all] MyNameIsKhan Nov 2016 OP

Be careful Kilgore Nov 2016 #1

That is why have written truth is bitter, I think this is a postmortem time for us and we must pause MyNameIsKhan Nov 2016 #3

Repukes ALWAYS run on jobs, jobs, jobs meow2u3 Nov 2016 #2

All you are saying is exactly true, but we have this electorate that is suffering and they are ready MyNameIsKhan Nov 2016 #4

Their "jobs" are always tax cuts for business, which everyone knows doesn't work LeftInTX Nov 2016 #13

I donot know personally how I will handle this man... time will heal my depression MyNameIsKhan Nov 2016 #14

Hillary ran on jobs mcar Nov 2016 #5

Yes I know she said about new jobs in clean energy and hitech... that needs different kind MyNameIsKhan Nov 2016 #7

Coal is not coming back frazzled Nov 2016 #9

I am not saying she should be untruthful and I am also saying he had a populist message MyNameIsKhan Nov 2016 #10

They weren't overtly discussed in the tv ads I saw. Which is what many people see. KittyWampus Nov 2016 #20

We went from 9% to 4.9% unemployment Bobbie Jo Nov 2016 #6

I give full credit to President Obama for this... MyNameIsKhan Nov 2016 #8

And Hillary wanted the biggest modern increase in minimum wage and voters didn't care. You're not bettyellen Nov 2016 #11

Its difficult unless you have spoken to people whose jobs has been outsourced and they are in MyNameIsKhan Nov 2016 #12

No they just have lies lies lies onecaliberal Nov 2016 #15

I agree Repubs lie and thats what we have seen for years... this duck shaped Mitch McConnell MyNameIsKhan Nov 2016 #18

It's laughable to me that they would think dump will do anything for them. onecaliberal Nov 2016 #19

Trump has already back-peddled on the coal jobs womanofthehills Nov 2016 #22

Hillary actually WON the working-class vote bigtree Nov 2016 #16

See I just posted what I observed and frankly this job movement troubled me... I am in middle MyNameIsKhan Nov 2016 #17

She didn't win those votes where she needed to. KittyWampus Nov 2016 #21

Really, not jobs per se, but high paying jobs in the Rust Belt andym Nov 2016 #23