• Jordan Lund@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      Also, national polls mean nothing. We don’t have a national election.

      Trump lost in 2016 by 2.1%, he became President by winning in WI, MI and PA. 2 states Clinton failed to campaign in and a 3rd she alienated.

      The total number of votes that elected Trump were just 22,748 in WI, 10,704 in MI and 44,292 in PA.

      77,744 people made Trump a President. The rest of us knew better.

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          1 year ago

          Also true, but it wouldn’t have happened if Clinton had actually campaigned in states she took for granted and didn’t say stupid shit about coal.

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            1 year ago

            Nothing Clinton said about coal was “stupid shit.”

            She just told people the truth, and people prefer to be lied to over hearing uncomfortable truths.

            Same happened to Al Gore: he told people the truth, and people went absolutely bonkers over that.

            By contrast, Trump told people exactly what they wanted to hear, even though it was clear to anyone that he was lying to them or promising them things that he could never, ever fulfill - and people loved it.