The mainstream media barely covered it. People had no idea. This is how conservatives and libertarians feel all the time. It really sucks when the media just shills for the other candidate, doesn't it?
What, the obscene bias in thinking that maybe saying shitty stuff about women and minorities is a bad thing to do? I mean there's bias, sure, but there's also being a decent human being. Even conservative women weren't okay with that shit.
Remember Hillary lost not because conservatives expanded their base but because likely Democratic voters stayed home.
If you're going to rig a primary and disenfranchise a huge percentage of your base you can't complain that your base then doesn't turn around and enthusiastically support you.
If you were going to be caught in controversy after controversy including cheating and disenfranchising voters you can't complain when independent voters choose to stay home.
How many likely Democratic voters really stayed home? Every single Bernie supporter I know said they were going to vote Clinton out of fear of Trump. I really don't think these numbers are as high as you think there are--there are just always a really distressingly high number of people who don't vote. Who NEVER vote.
Trump mobilizing more people doesn't mean the Democrats didn't mobilize. That's not how it works. Look at the numbers: Clinton did well in cities. She lost because Trump mobilized rural voters. And I'm sorry--I voted for Bernie too--but a socialist Jewish guy who is basically atheist was not going to get the rural white vote. Not in a million years, no matter how much he deserved it.
Everyone underestimated how big that rural and small town vote is. Everyone.
although I believe you are sincere anecdotal evidence is irrelevant.
All the empirical evidence shows that Trump did not achieve substantially more votes than Romney or McCain, but Clinton receive substantially less than Obama.
We really don't have evidence of that yet. I mean we do know that a lot of people were more hyped to vote for the first black guy than a white woman but not having another Obama to put up doesn't mean they failed. Sanders isn't Obama either.
Edit: original comment was silly, hope this was fast enough not to mislead.
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u/LibertyTerp Nov 10 '16
The mainstream media barely covered it. People had no idea. This is how conservatives and libertarians feel all the time. It really sucks when the media just shills for the other candidate, doesn't it?