True. But Democrats went on record as opposing deportation of all but criminals, which is a de facto open borders policy, or near enough as to make no difference.
Having had a week to think about it, I think the key factor was complacency. Everyone was predicting a Clinton victory so a lot of people who supported her (or opposed Trump) in theory didn’t feel any urgency to go out and actually vote for her.
I wonder if the triumphalism about early voting numbers had an effect as well. 2014 also featured early reports of great Democratic turnout, which either wasn’t true, or became not true due to Democrats assuming things were in the bag because of the news reports.
I agree. I believe the actions of the polling organizations and the media outlets suppressed the Democrat vote. Hillary must have the election in the bag. Everyone says so, so why bother voting?
No, since you still have to get into the USA, and there is a fence partly, and there is a border patrol, and checks and raids on business that hire illegals, etc.
Not even close to a de facto open borders policy. It does mean if you’re smart enough and lucky enough to get here, and keep your nose clean and pay your taxes… then we wont spend the tax dollars to round you up and kick you out.
I’ve read that Obama said that Hillary should have campaigned more. He said that back when he ran the first time he spent lots of time in Iowa going to every fish fry and county fair he could. Hillary didnt make many appearances and most of those were just to supporters. She instead sent Hollywood celebrities.
Their is an inside story that Bill told her to focus on the economy, which is how he won.
Instead they focused on trying to smear Trump.
Finally I think that since they knew they had the press on their side, they had it in the bag. Woops! they forgot people dont trust the press anymore.
I would also add to quit shoving the “alternative lifestyle” crap down peoples throats. Heck people have just learned to accept gays and NOW they have to toss in the transgender stuff with the bills now requiring bathrooms to be open to whoever feels like using them.
Also allow free speech like that bakery up in Oregon that was shut down and the owners slapped with a $180,000 fine for not baking a gay wedding cake.
I think that had something to do with the fact that she was a woman and the DNC heads were all women and the ONLY choice was to be a woman. AND they expected the rank and file of democrats would do as told.
They made a mistake in not going to the Bernie Sanders rallies and seeing the tens of thousands of people willing to elect him. Hillary’s rallies by comparison were a joke.
No, sorry. The purpose of transgender bathroom laws is to prevent transgender women from having the shit beat out of them and being raped. I don’t think that there is any minority in this country we have failed so much as transgender people. The statistics are staggering and shameful. I could give a shit less whether some people are uncomfortable with the steps necessary to prevent the rape and assault of other people.
Not to mention that if the right wing wasn’t shoving their bigotry and intolerance down peoples’ throats, we wouldn’t have had these issues in the first place.
This is difficult to confirm. Received wisdom suggests that polling leads are thought to depress turnout on the losing side. I don’t have a cite for this but it’s something I have picked up over the last few election cycles. Interestingly Nate Silver has said this election is the first time he has got into a disagreement with a political campaign(Hillary’s) over not giving her campaign a greater percentage chance of victory. The implication being he was under pressure to increase Hillary’s chances of winning on his site. I assume Hillary’s campaign believed in the received wisdom that campaigns expecting to lose have their turnout depressed.
It’s a bugbear of mines that the polls have themselves become a large part of the election news cycle. I realise they are important, but polls have become another obstacle to talking about actual issues. The polls have become the narrative.
Yeah I read that a few days back and it may well be the best piece written about this election. I hope every single person connected to the Democratic party reads it.
I think the biggest mistake was making the entire campaign about how awful Trump was, while Trump made his entire campaign about what he was going to do for his voters. Living in FL i saw nothing but an endless parade of Hillary ads that were nothing but the latest Trump idiocy that I had already seen repeated ad naseum in every possible media. Every cent she spent convincing people Trump was the worst person ever was completely wasted, it WORKED but people voted for him anyways. “This is what I’m going to do for you” “This is how the things Trump promises are going to fuck you”, that is what the campaign should have been. Nobody needed Hillary to remind us Trump made fun of a cripple or went around grabbing pussies, everyone already fucking knew.