Democrats Have Finally Figured Out Hillary’s Loss: “Her Base Didn’t Turn Out”
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
May 1, 2017
After crunching numbers for months, a group of Democratic strategists have finally figured out why Hillary lost the 2016 election: “her base didn’t turn out.” Sure, it probably had absolutely nothing to do with all those criminal FBI investigations or the fact that Trump was able to flip some Midwest states that haven’t gone Red since Ronald Reagan. Per McClatchy:
A select group of top Democratic Party strategists have used new data about last year’s presidential election to reach a startling conclusion about why Hillary Clinton lost. Now they just need to persuade the rest of the party they’re right.
Many Democrats have a shorthand explanation for Clinton’s defeat: Her base didn’t turn out, Donald Trump’s did and the difference was too much to overcome.
Ironically, while offering up the most ridiculous explanation possible for the outcome of the 2016 election, undoubtedly in an effort to erase all blame from Hillary herself (it wasn’t Hillary’s fault, her team just didn’t turn out the voters…they failed her), one strategist noted it’s important to “learn the right lesson from 2016” and not just the one “that makes us feel good at night.”
“We have to make sure we learn the right lesson from 2016, that we don’t just draw the lesson that makes us feel good at night, make us sleep well at night,” Canter said.
Sure, it couldn’t possibly be that Trump’s message just resonated better with voters in the Midwest…this map of Michigan is just the result of “voter turnout” problems…any suggestion to the contrary is just “fake news.”
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