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Sadly, there is no alternative.
Hillary's problem was she let her opponent out campaign and out work her. When Trump makes 116 campaign visits/stops to Hillary's 71 from 1 Sep through 8 Nov, what does that tell you? I know of no other Democrat or Republican for that matter who would let their opponent out work them in a such one sided glaring manner. Hillary was also taking days off where Trump took none. The energy level and enthusiasm gap between Trump supporters and Hillary's was also huge. Hers was more of a ho hum campaign.
Hillary's campaign strategy of running up the score, gaining more electoral votes than Obama did by trying to win Georgia, Arizona and Utah caused her to neglect her own backyard, the so called blue wall. Trump made five trips/visits to Wisconsin, Hillary none. In Michigan it was Trump six to Hillary's one. Pennsylvania was closer, 8-5 in favor of Trump. Even in rich electoral vote Florida, Hillary let Trump out campaign her there too, 13-8. All of the above Hillary had direct control over. I called it laziness, but perhaps she thought she had the election in the bag and thought she didn't have to work hard to win it. Make you're own decision there. The numbers speak for themselves.
As for Comey, I am one who thought the e-mail scandal was already baked into the election. Funny how Comey went from a hero of the Democrats when he refused to indict her earlier to a bastard goat of an excuse when he said he was reopening the case. so much so the democrats wanted him fired. Then from bastard to hero once again when Trump fired him. If one checks out the polling on 14 Oct 2016 Clinton led Trump by 6.7 points according to RCP. On 26 Oct the day before Comey's announcement Trump had cut Clinton's lead to 4.5 points. Trump was closing in on Hillary for around two weeks prior to Comey's announcement. Trump narrowed the RCP average to three points by the election which Hillary won the popular vote by 2.1 points. The key here is the narrowing began at least two weeks prior to Comey reopening the case. Okay, water under the bridge.
Cowards, it's called self-preservation. You seen it in 2010 and again in 2014 when quite a lot of democratic representatives and senators didn't want Obama to campaign for them due to Obama falling poll numbers. Self-preservation. In the case of these representatives choosing not to run, probably most were just fed up being hammered from Trump and his supporters and realizing they couldn't win without them.
Why run when no matter which way they go, they're looking at defeat? A Democratic Party united against Trump if nothing else. Very energetic to get out and vote against Trump by voting for democrats for congress. Independents fleeing Trump and looking to vote for the Democrat, at least as of now. Trump supporters looking to oust them because they aren't 100% Trump. What this is leading to very well could be a big blue wave in November.
Personally, I think the election was Hillary's to lose and by letting Trump outwork and out campaign her the way she did, she asked for it. Then again, she may not have been in the perfect health everyone assumed she was and she needed those days off. The health question may have arose in India a week or two ago once more. Who knows? I think the bottom line is Hillary supporters will never admit she was a flawed candidate and contributed to her own defeat more than anyone or anything else.
There are a ton of other reasons outside the Russians, Sanders supporters failing to show up to vote on election day, then those who did voted 73% Clinton, 12% Trump, 15% third party. They were angry at the rigged primaries in Clinton's favor. If they had voted about the same as the Democratic base, 89%, Clinton, 8% Trump, 3% third party, Hillary would have been sitting in the oval office today. Blacks also didn't support her like Obama. The black portion of the electorate fell from 13% in 2012 down to 12% in 2016. Obama among blacks beat Romney 93-6, Clinton over Trump 88-8. Hillary did worst than Obama in almost every blocking block. Hispanics, Asians, union households. etc. etc. Even the young, the 18-29 year old's. Obama over Romney 60-37, Clinton over Trump 55-36. Now there was a swap of support between High school or less and college grads. Obama won High School or less in 2012 while Romney won the college grads. In 2016, it was Trump winning the High School or less while Clinton won college grads.
End of book, for now. Just one more thing, when the Republican nominated Trump, I immediately resigned myself to a Hillary Clinton presidency. There was no way I ever thought Trump could win. then like most, I ignored the latest polls taken on the 6th. I went to bed election night early, around 10PM as I knew Hillary was going to win. I predicted that in fact. If I had looked at the last polls taken instead of ignoring them. I would have found Trump taking the lead in Michigan and Pennsylvania.
