2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: How many votes for Trump were more of a vote *FOR* Clinton? [View all]Chernobyl
(42 posts)hacked into our election system, altered votes, changed vote tallies or anything like that. If you've got evidence that anyone, including Russia did anything like that I would personally love to see it because that sure would make all of this a lot easier. The cold hard truth is that people voted for Trump, whether they did so from an educated point of view or not is in question. There's been no evidence whatsoever released that shows or even hints around that the election was actually "hacked".
At this point the only thing that's been insinuated is that Russia "infiltrated" our election by stealing and publishing emails from the DNC and John Podesta and/or they put out fake news stories that duped people into voting for Trump. Until we all realize what actually took place we'll never make any progress in fixing what took place. On a national level we were beaten badly, on a state level we didn't make up enough ground to make a difference this time around and 2018 is going to be even more difficult based on who is up for election and which states they're in.
If we intend on regaining power in any way we need to stop crying about Russians hiding in our closets and voting booths and start worrying about getting more people to vote for Democrats.
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