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Re:Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf] by dmfdmf on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @05:43PM (#12915527)
You beat me to it. Indeed, it was a Dunning-Kruger election but not in the way that the OP meant it.

Also, following on your second point, if the Dems are so smart how could they not see that Clinton was a fatally flawed candidate. We'll never know but I think its likely Sanders would have won versus Trump.

Re:Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf] by pyre on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @05:46PM (#12915561)
> how could they not see that Clinton was a fatally flawed candidate

All of the people positions of power in the DNC were pro-Hillary. That's why they were blinded. Their mind was made up before the election cycle even started.

Re:Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf] by rdtsc on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @06:15PM (#12915825)
> > how could they not see that Clinton was a fatally flawed candidate

> All of the people positions of power in the DNC were pro-Hillary. That's why they were blinded.

Running a campaign vs running a country is very different, no doubt. But many will make a case there. She has dropped the ball on the election, besides other list of things vs someone won against all odds (CNN projecting less than 1% odds of winning).

The interesting thing is much as people like to say Trump is stupid, anti-intellectual, just a TV personality, somehow he had intuition to poll in the right states at the right time, to understand what people want and respond do. All that while the both the Republicans, and Democrats, the media, the DOJ and POTUS where against him.

Taking everything away and just comparing based on those things, it is possible to draw some conclusions perhaps.

Re:Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf] by ant6n on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @07:20PM (#12916369)
Or it was just a toss up and be got lucky.
Re:Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf] by gohrt on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @10:51PM (#12917576)
Getting it to the tossup point was a massive mistake. How many voters did the Democrats lose due to their own underhanded infighting in the primaries?
Re:Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf] by FireBeyond on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @08:15PM (#12916755)
And they overtly and covertly pushed that barrow, even in the face of their supposed neutrality.
Re:Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf] by malz on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @11:47PM (#12917822)
I actually think it's unlikely for Sanders, but Biden likely would have won, if he had run. Many many many people saw this coming and begged him to enter the race. Biden has a bond with the blue-collar workers who fled to Trump, he has a compelling life story and is free of any clintonian scandals.
Re:Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf] by finiter on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @11:35PM (#12917758)
>how could they not see that Clinton was a fatally flawed candidate

Interesting theory when she got more votes.