{"id":18563,"date":"2016-12-12T21:57:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T21:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18563"},"modified":"2016-12-12T21:57:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T21:57:53","slug":"time-to-admit-real-reason-hillary-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18563","title":{"rendered":"Time to admit real reason Hillary lost"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Harry Reid isn’t long for the U.S. Senate. He’s retiring in a few weeks from his role as Democratic leader, but he’s going out with a bang.<\/p>\n

I believe it’s time that Reid and his fellow Democrats realize what some of us out here — yours truly included — are beginning to understand.<\/p>\n

Hillary\u00a0Rodham Clinton lost the presidential election because Donald J. Trump outhustled her in the waning days of a bitter campaign. FBI Director James Comey’s 11th-hour letter to Congress declaring he was looking into more e-mails might have had some<\/em> effect on the outcome. However, I do not believe he fired the kill shot at her campaign. Reid blames Comey almost entirely for Clinton’s loss.<\/p>\n

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Trump took the fight to Clinton in those so-called “swing states” and grabbed them from Clinton’s column. Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan should have voted for Clinton. Voters there went the other way because she didn’t pay enough attention to them at the end of the campaign.<\/p>\n

It’s called “retail politics,” which describes how candidates show up to shake hands, kiss babies, eat rotten “food” at fairgrounds. In other words, voters like to believe the candidate feels for them.<\/p>\n

She didn’t do that.<\/p>\n

As for Trump, well, he had those yuuuuge<\/em> rallies that got all kinds of air time and newspaper print space.<\/p>\n

Does any of this mean the better person won the presidency this past month? It only means the better candidate<\/em> did.<\/p>\n

I will not accept that Trump is\u00a0suited temperamentally — or any other way, for that matter\u00a0— for the office he is about to assume. However, I am willing to accept that he and his campaign team outsmarted their opponents down the stretch.<\/p>\n

Trump, therefore,\u00a0delivered the final shock to\u00a0many of us in a campaign full of shocking moments.<\/p>\n\n

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Harry Reid isn’t long for the U.S. Senate. He’s retiring in a few weeks from his role as Democratic leader, but he’s going out with a bang. I believe it’s time that Reid and his fellow Democrats realize what some of us out here — yours truly included — are beginning to understand. Hillary\u00a0Rodham Clinton … Continue reading Time to admit real reason Hillary lost<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[1033,1424,1693,2067,6242,5051],"class_list":["post-18563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-clinton-emails","tag-donald-trump","tag-fbi","tag-harry-reid","tag-james-comey","tag-us-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18565,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18563\/revisions\/18565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}