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2016 Postmortem

Vogon_Glory

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6. Comey DID influence the election

Reply to hueymahl (Reply #4)

Wed Nov 30, 2016, 12:48 PM

Nov 2016

I agree that Hillary ran a flawed campaign and that she was a candidate with flaws, but I remember reading a a "morning after" column by a Texas Republican political consultant named Matt Mackowiak saying that he expected Hillary to squeak by the election if it hadn't been for the e-mail pseudo-scandals and the ACA premium hike and Director Comey's meddling.

Maybe Hillary would have done better if she campaigned in Wisconsin and harder in Pennsylvania and Michigan, but Comey's thumb on the scale made a big difference in the electoral results.

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Comey DID influence the election Vogon_Glory Nov 2016 #6