Has nothing to do with the alt-right. Has more to do with the weak PoC turnout. The polls were within 1% in many swing states. Dems simply stayed home while blue collar voters went to the polls.
Low POC turnout . Hillary did better with POC's than white women. As to why so many white women passed up this opportunity to play identity politics and put one of their own in power is beyond me.
There are three red states that Hillary closed the gap in compared to the election in 2012. Democrats really need to focus and turning parts of these states blue from the ground up so they could be more in play in 2020.
Arizona
2012 - 53/44 (+9)
2016 - 50/45 (+5)
Georgia
2012 - 53/45 (+8)
2016 - 51/46 (+5)
Texas
2012 - 57/41 (+16)
2016 - 53/43 (+10)
Obviously Texas shows the most promise. It has the most electoral votes after California and the gap tightened the most between these three states. What they need to do is have a GREAT candidate in 2018 for Governor. I would say Julian Castro should try and focus on this instead of any presidential hopes for a while.
The media was all over the place: They gave Trump promo and (almost always) any promo is good promo. Their scandal reporting caused people to be numb, it became "Oh, Trump f'ed up again? What else is new?"
As for the Democrats: Hillary will win! but emails. Trump did this - but emails.
A complete mess from the LIBERAL media. They have repulsed faces yet they feed the hype.
The media declared Clinton the winner before the election even started. People then didn't show up. Big mistake. Very similar to the Truman and Dewey election TBH.
. Hillary did better with POC's than white women. As to why so many white women passed up this opportunity to play identity politics and put one of their own in power is beyond me.
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