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2016 Postmortem

Adrahil

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10. More ridiculous ambiguous nonsense.

Reply to realmirage (Reply #5)

Thu Dec 22, 2016, 09:41 AM

Dec 2016

Trump just won by lying.

We tried to win with offering people actual solutions. A significant portion of the voters just wanted to be lied to, or rather wanted to believe the lies.

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I believe Trump like I believed Obama! A case study of 2 working-class Latino T voters: my parents [View all] Dems to Win Dec 2016 OP

While LenaBaby61 Dec 2016 #1

Too bad. Repugs always screw working people. It's in their DNA. brush Dec 2016 #2

Except Trump's a proven liar who cheats workers out of their pay emulatorloo Dec 2016 #3

Wow! Very interesting article. Lots to chew on there Arazi Dec 2016 #4

Excellent but Democrats will probably not learn from this realmirage Dec 2016 #5

If they respond with triangulation 2.0 i'm going to scream dionysus Dec 2016 #8

More ridiculous ambiguous nonsense. Adrahil Dec 2016 #10

i knew i should not have read this article. people like this okieinpain Dec 2016 #6

I know... it makes me despair how moronic people can be. NT Adrahil Dec 2016 #11

Interesting burrowowl Dec 2016 #7

Hillary got more Latino votes than Obama . Trump Voters are not more important than others . HIllary JI7 Dec 2016 #9