SolidSnakex
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That isn't about her gender. But that also isn't the only factor at play here. The vast majority of people cite their general mistrust and dislike of her, as the reason they voted against her or opted not to vote at all. They aren't citing the fact she didn't speak to their demographic.
She's going to win the popular vote overall. Which means that more people were willing to vote for a woman to be president than a man. Her problem is that she simply couldn't connect with voters in the right states. And part of that is because she refused to even talk to them. To get to your point about how voters didn't trust her. If voters don't trust you then wouldn't it be a good idea to start talking directly to them about not only what you plan to do for them, but why they should trust you? Instead her messaging was constantly "Trump said this about women. Trump said this about minorities. Trump said this about war.". It was rarely about her and almost always about why Trump is such a terrible person. People knew Trump was terrible. His likability rating was even lower than hers. So, she didn't need to keep beating them over the head with it. She needed to start talking to them about her and her plans.
About talking directly to voters, several times Trump and Hannity would hold town hall meetings where Trump had a chance to talk to voters. There wasn't anything at all stopping Hillary from doing the exact same thing with another network. Any network would've jumped at the chance to host events like that. Instead when she was off doing fundraisers where her audience was ultra rich celebrities and business people.
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Agree with all of that. Clinton didn't have the ability or desire to reach out to everyone she needed to. That's not a gender issue, that's a clinton issue. She had NEVER been to wisconsin, at all.
That's a massive fuckup in the campaign, and you could see this same strategy in her 08 primary election- park yourself in swing states and high turnout blue areas, don't worry about anywhere else.
Obama crushed her by using data and ground game to hit low population caucus states and areas democrats don't usually bother to compete.
Her not going to Wisconsin is also a key point since she lost it by less than 30k votes. It's not like she got blown out by some insurmountable number. That small number has to make anyone that sees it ask themselves "How different would things have been had she talked to people there?". Just show people that you care about them! Obama visited Wisconsin six different times in his 2012 election and ended up wrecking Romney.
Hillary and her campaign instead wanted to try to run up the score. They convinced themselves that Georgia, Arizona and Texas were actually in play this year. She even took the time to visit Arizona. All of that instead of making sure that the states that were critical to her path to victory were locked down. Many Democrats laughed at Trump because he was campaigning in states that they thought were for sure going to blue. But he wasn't doing that because he was running up the score, he was doing it because that was the only chance he had of winning. His strategy was to pick up enough states to win while Hillary was being cocky.