Right around the time Hillary Clinton’s list of people, places, and things she blames for her election loss was hitting bookstore shelves, Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg was putting the finishing touches on his essay “How She Lost,” and it’s well worth a read just to cleanse one’s brain after Hillary’s whirlwind media tour to promote her book.
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What's the Russian word for "hubris"?
— ?Del Paxton’s Piano? (@Mark_Derr) September 23, 2017
Epic arrogance
— John Ondrasik (@johnondrasik) September 23, 2017
Greenberg says “malpractice and arrogance” were big contributors to Donald Trump’s victory, and he concludes that a failure to focus on battleground states, particularly in the final stretch, was lethal to her campaign.
CNN’s Chris Cillizza offered his own analysis of Greenberg’s piece, the most intriguing aspect of which he found to be Clinton’s choice “to focus on gender and race issues over class ones.”
Bill Clinton's pollster doesn't think much of the race Hillary Clinton ran | Analysis by @CillizzaCNN https://t.co/SRMOyy28Uv pic.twitter.com/TlLifvLBAl
— CNN (@CNN) September 23, 2017
Again, Greenberg’s piece is well worth a look, as it’s a brutal takedown of Clinton’s campaign team and strategy, plus it’s always satisfying to read about her losing. Who would believe that assuming she had certain demographic groups and battleground states all locked up was a bad idea?
But she was untitled to win. https://t.co/lGTqFhG0v0
— genuke1?? (@genuke1) September 23, 2017
She thought she had it in the bag.
— αpεΞΞυs??? (@apexxus) September 23, 2017
But … the Russians!
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Not that we’re best buds with Chris Cillizza, but someone should really have a word with CNN’s followers about shooting the messenger.
Oh, God, another hit piece by @CillizzaCNN You'd think she'd refused to lend him lunch money to pay bullies who beat him up or something.
— Nai Mei (@naimeiyao) September 23, 2017
One tires of your misogyny….* yawn *
— kevin marshall (@KevinKevin49) September 23, 2017
Dear @CNN stop the Anti- @HillaryClinton BS. ICYMI She won the popular vote in spite of msm reporting on her emails and not her agenda.
— Charlé Anastasia? (@LAwoman68) September 23, 2017
In spite of #RussianInterference #ComeyLetter #misogyny In spite of it all the majority heard her agenda, believed in her and voted for her
— Charlé Anastasia? (@LAwoman68) September 23, 2017
Your sexist little click-bait reporter has proven time & time again that he is incapable of objective analysis. So goodbye, CNN! I'm done.
— BLOOP! (@susiemcdonnell) September 23, 2017
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