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I don't think so, voting for the lesser of two evils, the least worst candidate, the candidate you least want to lose isn't a vote for whom you finally vote for.

Blaming the Russians is big among Clinton supporters, but doesn't address her laziness. From 1 Sep 2016 through 8 Nov 2016 she basically ceded the campaign trail to Trump. 116 campaign visits, stops, appearances, rallies for Trump, 71 for Clinton. In the three deciding states it was Wisconsin, 5 for Trump, none, zero, nada for Clinton. Michigan was six for Trump, one for Clinton, Pennsylvania was closer, 8 for Trump, 5 for Clinton. Even in electoral vote rich Florida, she ceded that state also to Trump. 13 visits, stops, rallies for Trump, 8 for Clinton. This had much more effect than any Russian thing.

Then there was Hillary's inept campaign strategy, if calling trying to get more electoral votes than Obama a strategy. She much much time, energy and money trying to win Arizona, Georgia and Utah instead of looking after her own backyard, the so called blue wall states.

Hilly's whole campaign was a ho hum affair. Trump energized and enthused his supporters to where they were willing to go to the four corners of the earth for him. Quite a few Hillary supporters weren't even enthused enough to go to the polls. The Democrats had a six point advantage in party affiliation in 2016, but only 3 points advantage among those who turned out to vote.

Hillary ceded the media to Trump also. He was always calling into every morning talk show almost every day. He didn't care if they were for him or against him. Hillary basically hid from the media, going over 200 days without a press conference and only appearing on shows that were 100% for her like the view. Trump was like that old showman, there isn't any such thing as bad publicity. No publicity was bad. His name was always the headliner, the top story, sometimes good, sometimes bad, sometimes indifferent, but he hogged the limelight.

There's much more, but I don't want to write a book. These things above Hillary had direct control over. She didn't Russia, maybe Russia made a difference, maybe not. If it did, it was because she did or didn't do all of the above allowing Russia to either make a difference or not.

I think letting Trump both outwork and out campaign her made the significant difference. Her laziness, her lack of fire in the belly. her ho humness. Almost like she knew she had the election in the bag, guaranteed to win, that she didn't have to try.