• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Hillary didn’t just lose because of a lack of “ground game” she lost because of instead of campaigning in states she needed to win, she did a victory lap and only went to states she was already locked in to win.

    She took winning for granted and only cared about beating Obama’s vote, because she still held a grudge.

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      8 months ago

      The other responder is correct. This is exactly what I was referring to. Why split hairs between a failure of the local party and self-sabotage resulting in no ground game?

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      8 months ago

      Hillary didn’t just lose because of a lack of “ground game” she lost because of instead of campaigning in states she needed to win, she did a victory lap and only went to states she was already locked in to win.

      That’s another way of saying “lack of ground game”.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        You make it sound like something they couldn’t do.

        Not something they deliberately choose to ignore

        That’s the difference. Hillary had all the campaign resources and money to win, hell, she took a bunch from senate races thru a fucked up DNC “donor sharing” program.

        Then blew all that money traveling Blue states so people would clap for her.

        She didn’t just fuck up her race, she fucked up the house and senate as well.

        Details and specifics matter