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I'm not clear where you're going with all this. Clearly Clinton lost. Clearly she made mistakes. That's indisputable. But based on the fact that the populac
by dpark 10y ago
I'm not clear where you're going with all this. Clearly Clinton lost. Clearly she made mistakes. That's indisputable. But based on the fact that the populace elected Trump, I'm not sure there's anything Clinton actually could have done to win. What Trump had was a message that apparently appealed to a very large section of the population (plus a xenophobe outreach campaign that built him a base to get through the primaries), and even if Clinton wanted to sell that message, I don't believe she could have, because she actually has a track record that the message clearly doesn't align with.
You seem to be convinced that experience and qualifications necessarily lead to winning elections, and therefore Clinton's loss proves that she has neither. But this is fundamentally untrue. Many times voters have chosen someone with less experience and weaker qualifications. I'd argue that Clinton was more qualified and more experienced than Obama when he beat her in the primaries. McCain was arguably more qualified and certainly more experienced when Obama beat him in the general election, too. He won because at the time voters preferred his message and his vision.
- rdtsc 10y ago> at built him a base to get through the primaries), and even if Clinton wanted to sell that message, I don't believe she could have That makes sense. Also good point on experience regarding Obama/Clinton/McCain > I'm not clear where you're going with all this. Nowhere really. I am just baffled about this and wanted to discuss stuff and see what other people think about it. As much as we don't do political stuff here, this still a more sane forum than reddit for example.
- dpark 10y agoFair enough. Your comments made it look like you were arguing that Clinton didn't have experience, etc. I can understand wanting to discuss and understand this, because it seemed like an almost impossible result.