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2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)Wow - the concern trolls were right. [View all]
Turns out that those DU posters who were so quickly and condescendingly labeled as "Concern Trolls" if they dared express ANY doubts about Hillary winning... were quite right to be concerned.
Unrealistic optimism noted, people.
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I still believed she would win, but I am forever traumatized by the 2004 election.
Kali
Nov 2016
#80
I'll be honest, I expressed a lot of confidence in my personal life that Clinton would win.
DemocraticWing
Nov 2016
#5
I agree. she may have won. but she was out of touch. as were people around her. Robby Mook?
SleeplessinSoCal
Nov 2016
#65
there is a difference between concern and dragging things down. none of it changes that many of them
JI7
Nov 2016
#7
OP is saying the truth. and it's more than "I told you so". Its let's not this happen again.
zonkers
Nov 2016
#67
You are absolutely right bains, and I made that point several times. The last two weeks
still_one
Nov 2016
#177
You don't think the GOTV people were working hard? I sure heard from a lot of them,
pnwmom
Nov 2016
#119
there was one election day poll that said Sanders would have beat Don 55-44
SleeplessinSoCal
Nov 2016
#69
Yeah, there was, based on opinions developed after NOT seeing Bernie the subject
pnwmom
Nov 2016
#158
Yeah, not being allowed to even mention the possibility pre-election, got pretty silly. nt
prayin4rain
Nov 2016
#14
You had no data to back up your concern with. There was tons of data supporting a Clinton win.
randome
Nov 2016
#18
The concern trolls almost never are, and are usually sent here from other sites to demoralize Democr
vdogg
Nov 2016
#20
I am concerned about this concern over the veracity of the average concern troll.
ismnotwasm
Nov 2016
#52
unfortunately the persons that dismissed any criticism, question, discussion or inquiry...
Raster
Nov 2016
#128
As a former concern troll, I don't think we should waste our time and energy gloating.
Vinca
Nov 2016
#33
I think a lesson should be learned here...just because someone posts something that is
TrekLuver
Nov 2016
#36
What you see in that regard is people unable to admit they were wrong in their assumptions/vitriol
revbones
Nov 2016
#63
maybe we shouldn't back such baggage filled flawed establishment candidate next time
Cobalt Violet
Nov 2016
#84
Gee, who would have predicted that nothing good would come from sowing discord and discontent?
Cary
Nov 2016
#48
This was a bad year with the courts at stake and a good chance to retake the Senate
Demsrule86
Nov 2016
#81
It was Sanders. He drove her negatives down with constant attacks and his supporters never
Demsrule86
Nov 2016
#83
Sorry...Berned railed against Hillary on trade and refused to concede in a timely fashion.
Demsrule86
Nov 2016
#190
It. Wasn't. Bernie. And anyone that can't honestly look at Clinton as a candidate...
Raster
Nov 2016
#130
It was Bernie. We would have won. And now the progressive revoution is probably dead.
Demsrule86
Nov 2016
#131
Stop blaming Bernie for the Clinton campaign ignoring white working class voters.
Ace Rothstein
Nov 2016
#188
Nope. It is because these people have NO clue what went down in this election.
duffyduff
Nov 2016
#49
The fact that some were "proven right" on a boolean proposition doesn't mean much.
stevenleser
Nov 2016
#102
Few knew that Comey was going to put his fist on the scale 11 days before the election,
pnwmom
Nov 2016
#113
Your concern is duly noted. I'm confident we will impeach and remove Trump by Christmas
Bucky
Nov 2016
#116
The objective of the concern trolls was to supress the Clinton vote & drive up support for Trump.
baldguy
Nov 2016
#148
The ones wishing to destroy the Democratic Party in order to "save" it are just as bad.
baldguy
Nov 2016
#169
Unfortunately, yes. The Democratic party had a wider problem than just DU, though.
Yo_Mama
Nov 2016
#149
Everybody should have been concerned instead of claiming that election was in the bag.
LisaL
Nov 2016
#179
We didn't expect all the polls to be total shit! (Nate Silver's lost all credibility)...
dubyadiprecession
Nov 2016
#159
I was trying to point out that polls don't win elections, and that polls are close. But it fell on
LisaL
Nov 2016
#185
I agree with that. It's clear their internals saw a shift in PA and MI.
Drunken Irishman
Nov 2016
#197