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Re:Inside a Failed Silicon Valley Attempt to Reinvent Politics by rm_-rf_slash on Thursday September 20, 2018 @10:48AM (#18032801)
Specifically, he won the election by edging a thin margin of electoral votes in key swing states, while losing the popular vote by millions. How exactly that came to be is stil a matter of debate.
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Re:Inside a Failed Silicon Valley Attempt to Reinvent Politics by jki275 on Thursday September 20, 2018 @11:10AM (#18033001)
That's not precisely correct -- it's very well understood. Many, if not most, of those millions of votes came from states he could not win no matter what he did (CA, NY) -- as a result there was no reason or incentive to spend time or money campaigning there.
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Re:Inside a Failed Silicon Valley Attempt to Reinvent Politics by claydavisss on Thursday September 20, 2018 @10:55AM (#18032864)
There is no debate - we do not elect the President by a popular vote.
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Re:Inside a Failed Silicon Valley Attempt to Reinvent Politics by uxp100 on Thursday September 20, 2018 @11:05AM (#18032947)
Well, there is debate on the tactical decisions that lead to that. I've heard that Clinton's campaign chose to make non-optimal decisions for winning the presidency to try and help downticket races, because they assumed presidential victory was assured. Whether that was the right strategy is up for debate, kinda I guess, I mean, we know who won.
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Re:Inside a Failed Silicon Valley Attempt to Reinvent Politics by claydavisss on Thursday September 20, 2018 @11:12AM (#18033027)
> Whether that was the right strategy is up for debate

Given that she lost, not really.

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