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2016 Postmortem

BainsBane

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4. It makes no sense

Reply to Yavin4 (Reply #3)

Mon Dec 5, 2016, 12:35 PM

Dec 2016

The numbers don't bear out your claim that it is definitive at all. As usual, the GOP electorate is comprised overwhelmingly of white men. I continue to believe we are underestimating the impact of voter suppression on communities of color.

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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