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2016 Postmortem

Yurovsky

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3. I think plenty of right wingers stay home...

Reply to TXCritter (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 30, 2016, 03:43 PM

Dec 2016

especially their tin-hat brigades. I know a couple who think it's all a scam and by registering to vote the government will start tracking them and the crazy just snowballs from there.

A more accurate statement would be that non-voting Democrats in the Midwest cost HRC the election. And to some degree, the Clinton campaign is complicit in this failure. I know many disagree, but it seems as though Bill Clinton's advice to focus on the Midwest in the closing weeks of the race were ignored.

It sucks to lose, and it sucks even more to lose a close election in the EC.

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Dear non-voters, Thank you for Trump [View all] TXCritter Dec 2016 OP

So apparently you are assuming they would have voted for Hillary if they had voted. nt m-lekktor Dec 2016 #1

Yes. The ones I've known would have TXCritter Dec 2016 #2

I think plenty of right wingers stay home... Yurovsky Dec 2016 #3