Originally Posted by Greger
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Major reasons why Hillary lost.

1 she was lazy and ceded the campaign trail to Trump.

A very inept campaign strategy

The media, Hillary ceded the media to Trump also.

The Sanders vote.

The only reason I can come up with for all the above, is that Hillary thought her election was in the bag, guaranteed

And despite all that she won by nearly 3 million votes. Yet Donald Trump was installed to the office.
Yep, exactly. Makes one wonder, at least me, why Hillary didn't give it the old college try. Either there was something physically wrong with her or she absolutely believed whether she tried or not, the election was her's. She really didn't need to show up.

As an avid follower of elections ever since I watched the Democratic and Republican conventions way back in 1956 on an old black and white TV, I never saw a major party candidate give such a lackadaisical effort. The closest I can come was to G.H.W. Bush's 1992 performance where he appeared he didn't care if he won or lost until 2 weeks prior to the election when he went into overdrive. By then it was too late.

I'm sure if the democrats in 2020 look at how Hillary conducted her campaign, do the exact opposite, they'll win in a landslide. With Sanders energy he showed during 2016, I believe he would have beaten Trump by 10-15 million votes. Besides, Sanders was respected and liked by the swing, independent voter. Hillary wasn't. Sanders was one of three candidates to be viewed more positively than negatively by independent voters. The other two, Kasich and Rubio. But none of them went through the general election campaign, so who knows how the public would have viewed them on election day.

It's high past time that we start electing Americans to congress and the presidency who put America first instead of their political party. For way too long we have been electing Republicans and Democrats who happen to be Americans instead of Americans who happen to be Republicans and Democrats.