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2016 Postmortem

Yavin4

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3. Neither Romney nor Obama is a woman

Reply to BainsBane (Reply #2)

Mon Dec 5, 2016, 12:32 PM

Dec 2016

White women had a historic opportunity to elect a woman and passed. Second, Romney was not a clear, ugly misogynist like Trump. Third, a majority on the SCOTUS wasn't literally hanging in the balance.

Finally, no, I'm not blaming women. I'm blaming White women for Trump's victory.

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The definitive reason why Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 presidential election [View all] Yavin4 Dec 2016 OP

Why do we repeat this nonsense? zstat Dec 2016 #1

Romney lost by winning 56% of white women BainsBane Dec 2016 #2

Neither Romney nor Obama is a woman Yavin4 Dec 2016 #3

It makes no sense BainsBane Dec 2016 #4

Communities of color voted for her in large majorities. Yavin4 Dec 2016 #8

Cool way to move those goalposts... LanternWaste Dec 2016 #6

You can deny hard evidence all you want. Yavin4 Dec 2016 #10

First of all, she didn't lose. Loge23 Dec 2016 #5

if she didn't lose, then why all the fuss? NRQ891 Dec 2016 #7

I'm not a conspiracy theorist type NewJeffCT Dec 2016 #11

Notice most of those states were GOP voter suppression states too uponit7771 Dec 2016 #13

There is no one reason. Orsino Dec 2016 #9

Huh? You're gonna blame it on white women? How about white men? How... TreasonousBastard Dec 2016 #12