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Sun Dec 11, 2016, 04:38 PM

LisaL (44,186 posts)

46. And?

What were supposed we have done about the warnings? Certainly some people here were way over confident, but what difference did it make in the end? I certainly believed there was a chance Trump could win.

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68 replies	Author	Time	Post
We were warned. We actually knew this could happen. [View all]	MineralMan	Dec 2016	OP
I'm going to say Trump is fat. While I still can. n/t	rzemanfl	Dec 2016	#1
He is fat and ugly	MFM008	Dec 2016	#9
Whatever. Say whatever you like.	MineralMan	Dec 2016	#10
That's okay. The poster above trumped me in the game sense anyway. n/t	rzemanfl	Dec 2016	#41
Uh, so?	cwydro	Dec 2016	#48
Mineral Man doesn't approve of body shaming. It goes back a while.	rzemanfl	Dec 2016	#51
Liberals generally are not big on body shaming. Dislike seeing it here	bettyellen	Dec 2016	#54
We can sure get off on tangents here.	rzemanfl	Dec 2016	#55
Democrats didn't fail. The blame rests fully on the Trump voters.	duffyduff	Dec 2016	#2
Clinton voters didn't fail us.	MineralMan	Dec 2016	#6
+1 (nt)	LongtimeAZDem	Dec 2016	#28
I agree with you, MM.	murielm99	Dec 2016	#31
Actually MM, I saw several posts here where DUers said they would happily vote third party.	cwydro	Dec 2016	#50
Yes. I remember who they were, too	MineralMan	Dec 2016	#56
I wonder if they know we remember them.	cwydro	Dec 2016	#57
Right	Cosmocat	Dec 2016	#36
We were also warned about nominating a candidate with so much baggage	Exilednight	Dec 2016	#3
Not Clinton's fault and you know it.	duffyduff	Dec 2016	#5
Why include Bloomberg?	progressoid	Dec 2016	#23
Probably because Bloomberg said at one point that he would	Tanuki	Dec 2016	#38
absolutely	AlexSFCA	Dec 2016	#37
I never mentioned Sanders.	Exilednight	Dec 2016	#66
Hillary Clinton was the Party's nominee. She won that nomination	MineralMan	Dec 2016	#7
It is her fault. She lacks the skills to get out from all the baggage she carries.	Exilednight	Dec 2016	#39
I agree with your post	metroins	Dec 2016	#44
Nice to accuse like the GOP has for 25 years, but please explain what "actual" baggage	world wide wally	Dec 2016	#49
Baggage comes in all forms. It doesn't have to be something	Exilednight	Dec 2016	#67
Hillary tried to warn people. No one was listening.	leftofcool	Dec 2016	#4
Yes, she did. She was right.	MineralMan	Dec 2016	#8
We knew about russian hacking	libtodeath	Dec 2016	#11
Yes, we did, and well before the election.	MineralMan	Dec 2016	#13
Or they would have just upped the vote count against us.	libtodeath	Dec 2016	#15
See, that only works up to a certain point.	MineralMan	Dec 2016	#18
Not with a hack.	libtodeath	Dec 2016	#19
You can't hack a voting machine from a remote location.	Exilednight	Dec 2016	#68
Now faced with the realization that a hostile foreign government hijacked an American election	AnotherMother4Peace	Dec 2016	#12
Roughly 80,000 votes in three states would have made	MineralMan	Dec 2016	#14
Glad you can just shrug it off	libtodeath	Dec 2016	#16
How am I "shrugging it off?"	MineralMan	Dec 2016	#20
We dont fight for recounts or a revote given the circumstances?	libtodeath	Dec 2016	#22
There are recounts ongoing.	MineralMan	Dec 2016	#24
I am shrugging it off.	Missn-Hitch	Dec 2016	#32
The warnings that you are talking about	mtnsnake	Dec 2016	#17
I'm only talking about the general election campaign.	MineralMan	Dec 2016	#21
I ran into this one neo-con couple in my neck of the woods	mtnsnake	Dec 2016	#25
I was also sure Clinton would win.	MineralMan	Dec 2016	#26
I thought he had a chance and I was nervous. My friend said, "No way".	Missn-Hitch	Dec 2016	#35
Nate Silver	zipplewrath	Dec 2016	#60
Indeed. I was on 438 daily.	Missn-Hitch	Dec 2016	#65
Two near certainties in every election	HassleCat	Dec 2016	#27
We didn't fail because we were warned.	ananda	Dec 2016	#29
I voted the earliest that I've ever voted in a general election.	Buckeye_Democrat	Dec 2016	#30
There are Cassandras of the party. Don't call them paranoid. Heed them. Help build the evidence.	ancianita	Dec 2016	#33
No one wanted to listen to the warnings.	Gore1FL	Dec 2016	#34
we all saw it coming	AlexSFCA	Dec 2016	#40
I was talked down to by a few	tom_kelly	Dec 2016	#42
I keep thinking of the Yoda metaphor.	Initech	Dec 2016	#43
Armageddon	dhol82	Dec 2016	#45
The force? fills after the vacuum of suffering	uponit7771	Dec 2016	#58
And?	LisaL	Dec 2016	#46
You can't hide from yourself.	liquid diamond	Dec 2016	#47
There were also LOTS of warnings here after the Comey bullshit stunt.	Buckeye_Democrat	Dec 2016	#52
I was one of the DUers that posted about the Danger of Comey's statement	UCmeNdc	Dec 2016	#63
No, its not Clintons fault.	J_William_Ryan	Dec 2016	#53
KnR	Hekate	Dec 2016	#59
Well. you also posted that the polls were not giving Hillary the actual count.	cwydro	Dec 2016	#61
Actually, we DID listen. And we said we can't afford to waste time on a corrosive primary.	ucrdem	Dec 2016	#62
Right 'cause not challenging HRC in the primary would have won over the 40% of Dem primary voters	aikoaiko	Dec 2016	#64

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