I'm on the other side of most of you. What is amazing to me about this election is that there are 20-30 things Hillary could have done or refrained from doing, ANY ONE of which would have put her over the electoral college 270 threshold, and she and her party managed to screw up EVERY ONE of those 20-30 items.
This election will be a case study for something like forever I suspect, and everyone will look at individual factors. I tend to agree about the significance of the "deporables" issue though. I've got a B.A. in Russian from a purportedly elite Quaker liberal arts college, a JD from an Ivy League law school, and despite living on the coasts in major urban areas since 1974 I am from one of the middle states full of "deporables" and that statement crystallized my general visceral response to everything Hillary said, did, and emanated.
But the real lesson here as a case study is kind of simple. If you get every single thing wrong you can lose when it was so easy for you to win. If you have to win by getting at least one or two things out of 20-30 right, you have to get at least one or two of those things right. You can't fail to execute on every single item and expect to win.
I'm on the other side of most of you. What is amazing to me about this election is that there are 20-30 things Hillary could have done or refrained from doing, ANY ONE of which would have put her over the electoral college 270 threshold, and she and her party managed to screw up EVERY ONE of those 20-30 items.
This election will be a case study for something like forever I suspect, and everyone will look at individual factors. I tend to agree about the significance of the "deporables" issue though. I've got a B.A. in Russian from a purportedly elite Quaker liberal arts college, a JD from an Ivy League law school, and despite living on the coasts in major urban areas since 1974 I am from one of the middle states full of "deporables" and that statement crystallized my general visceral response to everything Hillary said, did, and emanated.
But the real lesson here as a case study is kind of simple. If you get every single thing wrong you can lose when it was so easy for you to win. If you have to win by getting at least one or two things out of 20-30 right, you have to get at least one or two of those things right. You can't fail to execute on every single item and expect to win.