2016 Postmortem

She didn't connect with voters. Overall, Democratic turnout was down. Compared to Obama in 2012 she received 5% less of the African-American vote and 6% less of the Hispanic vote. Her lack of charisma, ability to connect and forming a coherent message turned off these voters.

I have yet to see anyone claim that she was "too much like Obama", but even Hillary herself admitted that she wasn't a natural politician like Obama or Bill.

Many of her speeches were too subtle and filled with wonky information, which is fine for a wonk like me. When she did try to connect and be more personable it came off as being over the top. She reminds me of Mr & Mrs Edgar who I grew up down the street from. I loved Mrs Edgar because she spoke WITH me, but Mr Edgar spoke AT me. When Hillary spoke, she always reminded me of Mr. Edgar.



She should have focused more on policy, or focused more on personality, she didn't do either. She attempted to cut the baby in half, and she came of as if she was searching for that x factor she was lacking. She didn't go too negative on Trump, she screwed up and went after Trump supporters, but again it was the wrong type of negativity and lackluster at best. If you're going to do it, then you go full-bore ahead and aim the candidate. By the time she found the right balance it was too late.

Let's also be honest when saying she did have the wrong advisors. Much of her campaign staff were the same people from 2008, which didn't turnout so great for her. She placed loyalty over competence when it came to picking her staff.

She never came off as too confident, but I would say she did come off as arrogant. A good advisor will TELL their candidate that they never start a sentence when talking to the a large audience with "I KNOW". When you start a sentence that way, you're not talking with people, you're talking AT them.



Many of the "Monday morning quarterbacks" that you so handily dismiss are often right. Many tried to warn the Democratic establishment about these issues, but no one wanted to listen. If they did speak up, especially on this very board, they were automatically labeled "concern trolls". At history has now shown us, those concerns were justified.



We don't choose our president by the "majority of votes". We chose our president by the Elelctoral College system. It's a system that Hillary should be well familiar with.

I have yet to see anyone call her an "uppity woman", but she does come across as arrogant, much in the same way that Mitt Romney does.



A candidate has to be able to deal with these things. There are always outside forces at work, and a smart politician knows how to think on their feet and pivot at just the right moment. Instead, Hillary's campaign team spent too much time attempting to work on damage control, which by extension lead to this staying in the news cycle much longer than it should have.



I can think of many. Our current president walked in on day one with the minority leader claiming that the only thing Republicans have on their agenda is to ensure that President Obama is on a one term president.



Hillary lost because of all of the above, and she did lose In January it will be, sadly, Donald Trump who is sworn in as President of the United States. The popular vote means jack in this country, and we all know it.

And just for the record, I did vote. Just to be perfectly clear, I voted for Hillary.