The president's mood has been buoyed by recent polling and his visits to battleground states, as Trump sits in a Manhattan courtroom for his criminal trial.
    • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
      322·
      7 months ago

      Utterly unelectable is a weird way of describing someone who got 3M more votes than the other guy.

      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
        98·
        7 months ago

        Yeah, that electoral college sure jumped out at her suddenly, giving her only 227 years to prepare.

        • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
          135·
          7 months ago

          Do you actually have a point or are you just a dick?

          Misjudging where to focus a campaign isn’t the same as being “utterly unelectable”.

          • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
            36·
            7 months ago

            She was going to run a bad campaign no matter what. Her arrogance allowed for nothing else. Her shitty political instincts are what made her unelectable.

        • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
          172·
          7 months ago

          She lost because the electoral college is broken. That’s not the same as being “utterly unelectable”.

          • BakerBagel@midwest.social
            68·
            7 months ago

            Wasn’t her whole schtick that she knows politics better than anyone? She really should have seen that coming and campaigned in swing states

        • DdCno1@kbin.social
          162·
          7 months ago

          It was Russia that tipped the scale, including by convincing traditionally democratic voters in key states to vote third party or not at all.

            • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
              39·
              7 months ago

              And the sun was in her eyes, and there was a rock in her shoe, and the dog ate her homework, and…

                • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  13·
                  7 months ago

                  I’m saying it’s an excuse. The right hate any Democrat. She had already lost the right, then went on to make her withering contempt of the left mutual.

            • DdCno1@kbin.social
              144·
              7 months ago

              She was by far the most qualified presidential candidate in history. You’ve fallen victim to a smear campaign, but are blissfully unaware of it.

              • Pronell@lemmy.world
                57·
                7 months ago

                It’s really insulting being told that my opinion is the result of a smear campaign.

                I witnessed the smear campaign. It was unfair. I still didn’t like her.

                Then I’m repeatedly fucking lectured that an embattled former First Lady, two term Senator, one term Secretary of State was the MOST QUALIFIED EVER candidate. Being embattled and disliked isn’t as great an asset as you want to think, especially when you LOSE.

                No, she fucking wasn’t. And the insistence that she was really hurt her chances because a mythology was being built up around her rather than presenting her as an honest, straightforward candidate.

              • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
                14·
                7 months ago

                She was by far the most qualified presidential candidate in history.

                She was uniquely qualified to lose to trump.