2016 Postmortem

NRQ891

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3. I listened to NPR at noon the next day

Fri Dec 2, 2016, 10:08 AM

Dec 2016

and they had a call in show, the moderator framing the question to callers 'Either you're really depressed or elated today, and to call in and say why.

He totally missed it. A very large number of people, were unsatisfied with the choice they had. Someone with high negative, beat someone with high negatives. That could have been the headline, no matter what.

Failing to take this into account, when analyzing what happened, risks needlessly demonizing future potential allies (and by 'potential allies', I'm not even necessarily talking about people who voted for Trump - I'm talking more about people who didn't vote for either)

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Is the fact that both candidates had historically high negatives being ignored? [View all] NRQ891 Dec 2016 OP

No one knows what to do with it zipplewrath Dec 2016 #1

good points nt NRQ891 Dec 2016 #2

Not true that HRC recevied 6M fewer votes than Obama 2012. HRC received only 1.1 million fewer votes Fla Dem Dec 2016 #4

Not my intent zipplewrath Dec 2016 #5

I listened to NPR at noon the next day NRQ891 Dec 2016 #3

Yes. Only HRC's negatives mattered, because Russia said so, and Trump is Vladmir's chump, and so LaydeeBug Dec 2016 #6

what i felt... djsunyc Dec 2016 #7

The only negatives that seem to count around here are HRC's. Paladin Dec 2016 #8

GOP set up Hillary for failure --negatives of both candidates WERE the key factors in this election andym Dec 2016 #9