Speaking of an honest discussion, I would appreciate being a little more generous when you characterize my points. I did not present voter suppression as a bs issue, or say that the media needs to talk about hillary's emails more. Honestly, I don't even want to counter these points because it's a waste of time and will take 30 back and forths on positions that I do not hold, to prove that I don't.
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Yes, the blatantly arrogant clinton campaign. It is so funny that they based their campaign decisions on an algorithm that they would "unveil" after the election, it's really a perfect characterization of that campaign.
The ones lauded for their "ground game" turning away activists and volunteers because "it wasn't scientific". The ones that popped champagne on election day because they were just always one step ahead with their data. Mook and co need to have their feet held to the fire for deluding themselves to such degree. More blame should be placed here than anyone and anything else.
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Michigan operatives relay stories like one about an older woman in Flint who showed up at a Clinton campaign office, asking for a lawn sign and offering to canvass, being told these were not “scientifically” significant ways of increasing the vote, and leaving, never to return. A crew of building trade workers showed up at another office looking to canvass, but, confused after being told there was no literature to hand out like in most campaigns, also left and never looked back.
On the morning of Election Day, internal Clinton campaign numbers had her winning Michigan by 5 points. By 1 p.m., an aide on the ground called headquarters; the voter turnout tracking system they’d built themselves in defiance of orders — Brooklyn had told operatives in the state they didn’t care about those numbers, and specifically told them not to use any resources to get them — showed urban precincts down 25 percent. Maybe they should get worried, the Michigan operatives said. Nope, they were told. She was going to win by 5. All Brooklyn’s data said so. In at least one of the war rooms in New York, they’d already started celebratory drinking by the afternoon, according to a person there. Elsewhere, calls quietly went out that day to tell key people to get ready to be asked about joining transition teams.
Clinton camp didn't publicly call for the recount, they let Stein do the lifting. I wonder, why did they leak out misleading information (which the professor of the report said was mischaracterized)?
Then you have Podesta, another asshat, crying out for an electoral briefing, because he gave away his email password. He did this thanks to the Clinton IT guy saying "yeah this is a legit email, change your pw immediately" in response to a phishing email. This IT guy now says that was a typo. You can't make this stuff up.
