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>>It was meant to protest us from the whims of the people and from folks like Trump.
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>>Tamar
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>You fail to understand or acknowledge something. The Trump voters likely felt the same way.
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>Here's the unavoidable fact - the dislike/disapproval rating of both candidates was very high. So you have 2 very unpopular people running against each other. Someone had to win.
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>I am surprised she lost Florida, nearly shocked she almost lost Virginia, extremely surprised she lost NC, and downright stunned she lost PA, Wisconsin, and Michigan. I am going to continue to say what I've said for over a year - despite every conventional advantage and despite a DNC pulling every string, she was a horrible candidate. Put a bad establishment candidate in the political ring with a bad non-establishment candidate, and considering the frustration of the country, this result should not come as a surprise.

Worth noting that Trump won WI by 27,000. A federal court said that there 300,000 voters there who lacked the strict ID required. The state was ordered to make it easier to get ID, and they defied the orders.

If you haven't been reading Ari Berman's reporting on voter suppression in The Nation (and haven't read his tremendous book "Give Us the Ballot"), I strongly recommend you do.

Tamar