• @AbidanYre
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    3010 months ago

    Utterly unelectable is a weird way of describing someone who got 3M more votes than the other guy.

    • @Ensign_Crab
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      110 months ago

      Yeah, that electoral college sure jumped out at her suddenly, giving her only 227 years to prepare.

      • @AbidanYre
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        10 months ago

        Do you actually have a point or are you just a dick?

        Misjudging where to focus a campaign isn’t the same as being “utterly unelectable”.

        • @Ensign_Crab
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          -310 months ago

          She was going to run a bad campaign no matter what. Her arrogance allowed for nothing else. Her shitty political instincts are what made her unelectable.

      • @AbidanYre
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        1510 months ago

        She lost because the electoral college is broken. That’s not the same as being “utterly unelectable”.

        • @BakerBagel@midwest.social
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          -210 months ago

          Wasn’t her whole schtick that she knows politics better than anyone? She really should have seen that coming and campaigned in swing states

          • @AbidanYre
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            1410 months ago

            I’m not trying to argue that she ran a great campaign.

      • DdCno1
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        1410 months ago

        It was Russia that tipped the scale, including by convincing traditionally democratic voters in key states to vote third party or not at all.

        • @AbidanYre
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          1610 months ago

          30 years of right-wing propaganda didn’t help either.

          • @Ensign_Crab
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            -610 months ago

            And the sun was in her eyes, and there was a rock in her shoe, and the dog ate her homework, and…

            • @AbidanYre
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              510 months ago

              Are you trying to say the right hasn’t been attacking her since she was first lady?

              • @Ensign_Crab
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                -210 months ago

                I’m saying it’s an excuse. The right hate any Democrat. She had already lost the right, then went on to make her withering contempt of the left mutual.

          • DdCno1
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            1010 months ago

            She was by far the most qualified presidential candidate in history. You’ve fallen victim to a smear campaign, but are blissfully unaware of it.

            • @Pronell
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              -210 months ago

              It’s really insulting being told that my opinion is the result of a smear campaign.

              I witnessed the smear campaign. It was unfair. I still didn’t like her.

              Then I’m repeatedly fucking lectured that an embattled former First Lady, two term Senator, one term Secretary of State was the MOST QUALIFIED EVER candidate. Being embattled and disliked isn’t as great an asset as you want to think, especially when you LOSE.

              No, she fucking wasn’t. And the insistence that she was really hurt her chances because a mythology was being built up around her rather than presenting her as an honest, straightforward candidate.

            • @Ensign_Crab
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              -310 months ago

              She was by far the most qualified presidential candidate in history.

              She was uniquely qualified to lose to trump.