{"id":21442,"date":"2017-05-03T19:07:34","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T19:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21442"},"modified":"2017-05-03T19:07:34","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T19:07:34","slug":"heres-why-hillary-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21442","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s why Hillary lost"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/AAk9ffs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21443\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/AAk9ffs-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/AAk9ffs-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/AAk9ffs.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hillary Clinton has blamed a lot of factors on her shocking defeat during the 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>FBI Director James Comey&#8217;s 11th-hour letter to Congress about those &#8220;damn e-mails&#8221;; WikiLeaks dumps of more e-mail material; Russian hacking &#8230; and yes, her own missteps.<\/p>\n<p>I only can surmise that one of those self-inflicted wounds occurred when Clinton failed to visit Wisconsin, one of the key &#8220;battleground states&#8221; that went for Donald J. Trump in the 2016 election. She also paid precious little attention to Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania &#8212; all of which also swung in Trump&#8217;s favor. She wasted a lot of time by taking those states for granted in the closing days and weeks of a campaign she <em>thought<\/em> was in the bag.<\/p>\n<p>Had she and her campaign devoted the energy she needed to fire up her base on those states, none of the other matters would have amounted to anything.<\/p>\n<p>She didn&#8217;t. She blew it. Her campaign disserved her.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have concluded as much in assessing where this election went south.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/democrats-say-they-now-know-exactly-why-clinton-lost\/ar-BBAyW55?li=BBmkt5R&amp;ocid=spartandhp\">Now it&#8217;s time to look ahead. <\/a>Democrats have a mid-term election next year on which to concentrate. After that, in 2020, they have another shot at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>I will stand by my an earlier assertion that Democrats need to find a freshly scrubbed, unknown political star to carry their standard forward. I believe there&#8217;s something to be said about &#8220;Clinton fatigue.&#8221; Her best chance at grasping the big prize stood before her this past year, but she let it slip away.<\/p>\n<p>Who would that new political star be? I have no idea. I haven&#8217;t heard his or her name yet.<\/p>\n<p>Get busy, Democrats,<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hillary Clinton has blamed a lot of factors on her shocking defeat during the 2016 presidential election. FBI Director James Comey&#8217;s 11th-hour letter to Congress about those &#8220;damn e-mails&#8221;; WikiLeaks dumps of more e-mail material; Russian hacking &#8230; and yes, her own missteps. I only can surmise that one of those self-inflicted wounds occurred when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21442\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Here&#8217;s why Hillary lost<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[74,1424,1693,2139,6242],"class_list":["post-21442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-2016-election","tag-donald-trump","tag-fbi","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-james-comey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21442","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=21442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21444,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21442\/revisions\/21444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}