Quote (Black XistenZ @ Nov 23 2017 11:10am)
no, its you who doesnt want to listen. as I already explained: it was a very tight election, tight enough that something like 20 different things swung the election in one direction or the other by a large enough margin to change the outcome. blaming exactly the two high-profile issues that are not her fault is dishonest when there are 18 or more mistakes that she made and that one could just as well blame for the lost election.
it was her decision or that of her campaign to make this election about trumps unfitness to serve, to pick a VP candidate who didnt help her one bit, to not campaign in the midwestern states that ultimately swung the election to trump, to campaign in strategically unwise states like ohio, arizona or north carolina, to bet on a repeat of the obama coalition even though hillary clearly was not obama, to play it safe during the 2nd presidential debate where trump was gravely wounded by the access hollywood tape, close to a meltdown and ripe for the killing blow, to pander to latinos even though it was obvious that latino turnout wouldnt help her in the electoral college. it was clinton who couldnt find an inspiring message, who was unable to give voters a compelling reason to vote for her. it was her who was unable to really connect to the majority of the democratic base, who was more out of touch with common people than a billionaire real estate mogul who was born and raised with a golden spoon. it was clinton and her corrupt network in the DNC that robbed Bernie out of the nomination and thus soured the progressive wing of her own party and base, even though she would have defeated him even without those dirty moves anyway. it was her close confidant huma abedin sticking by a rotten perv who was sending dick picks to underage girls that ultimately enabled comey to reopen the investigation against her. it was clinton and her staff who violated laws by running a private email-server and who illegally deleted those mails despite a subpoena. the russians hacked their mails, but the repulsive things voters could see and read in there were still the conversations and opinions of clinton and her inner circle.
the entire clinton campaign is a gigantic pile of epic failure upon epic failure. she made over a dozen big mistakes on the campaign. she went into this campaign with an enormous structural advantage against a wonky and subpar opponent and it took a large series of mistakes to blow it. blaming everything on russia/comey, i.e. outside factors, is simply ridiculous considering that 90% of the string of mishaps that it took her to lose the election is her fault.
The point is that Comey and Russia are
unique outside factors. Like unprecedented in modern history. So those seem most relevant to me, but of course there's a myriad of other factors where Hillary does deserve blame, and she talks about them in her book.
Hindsight is 20/20. Hillary couldn't see into the future... her campaign made strategic decisions based on polling. If the internal polling is telling her campaign that Michigan and Wisconsin are locks, and she's leading or competitive in AZ/OH/NC, it would be a mistake for her to try not to win those states.
Even with the DNC shenanigans I think Hillary still would've won the nomination. Donna Brazile believes that as well.
Many of your points are correct, and she talks about some of them in the book and in interviews. Anyone who runs for president isn't going to be overly critical of themselves or their campaign. I can only imagine what Trump would've said if he had lost... my guess is he wouldn't accept any responsibility. But that's okay with you, because he never claimed not to be a crazed narcissist?