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The Russian Hack Absolutely Affected The Outcome of The 2016 Election (Laff riot)
The Huffington Post ^ | December 16, 2016 | Richard Greene

Posted on 03/07/2017 2:25:02 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Donald Trump won The 2016 Election by

22,748 votes in Wisconsin 44,312 votes in Pennsylvania 9,528 votes in Michigan.

Out of 135,657,507 Americans voting, Donald Trump won the Presidency by 76,588 votes, or 0.056% of those voting.

In Michigan, for example, out of 4,799,284 votes cast, a margin of victory of 9,528 represents 0.19% of the vote. To put that into context, that means that in a representative room full of 1,000 Michigan voters, 501 would have voted for Trump and 499 would have voted for Hillary Clinton. In other words, if only 2 out of 1,000 voters had liked Hillary a bit more, or Trump a bit less, the election in Michigan, and all of their 16 electoral votes, would have gone to Clinton instead.

To say that less than 2 out of every 1,000 Michiganders, and similar numbers in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, were not affected by the constant drip, drip, drip of negative Wikileaks email revelations over the course of many months of the Presidential campaign, accentuated by Donald Trump’s amplification of those leaked emails, accentuated by ads and constant news stories amplifying the worst aspects of those leaked emails, constantly taking Hillary Clinton’s messaging and campaign off course and throwing them, relenttessly, into “Defense” mode instead of taking their own message to the people of Michigan and America . . . is to literally call Vladimir Putin stupid.

The former head of The KGB is not stupid and the effort to get incriminating emails and information about The DNC and Hillary Clinton was not stupid, nor the strategy of publishing little bit by little bit over the course of many months....

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KEYWORDS: 2016election; hillary; russia; trump; wikileaks
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Putin rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the KGB. He was never anywhere near the top in that organization and was never in charge of it.
1 posted on 03/07/2017 2:25:02 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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The left loves to live in an alternate reality


2 posted on 03/07/2017 2:28:40 PM PST by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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The KGB was their version of our CIA.


3 posted on 03/07/2017 2:28:44 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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---wah,wah,wah--

, --accentuated by Donald Trump’s amplification of those leaked emails, accentuated by ads and constant news stories amplifying the worst aspects of those leaked emails,---

4 posted on 03/07/2017 2:29:35 PM PST by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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The Clinton hack lost the election.


5 posted on 03/07/2017 2:29:41 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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They did? Where do I buy a Hallmark thank you card in Cyrillic?


6 posted on 03/07/2017 2:29:48 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
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“In other words, if only 2 out of 1,000 voters had liked Hillary a bit more, or Trump a bit less, the election in Michigan, and all of their 16 electoral votes, would have gone to Clinton instead.”

And if my aunt had balls she’d be my uncle. Progressives cannot accept responsibility for failure...EVER! If they did the whole ideology falls apart.


7 posted on 03/07/2017 2:30:43 PM PST by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
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8 posted on 03/07/2017 2:30:52 PM PST by 4Liberty (PRESIDENT TRUMP: Making Private Property Rights great again!)
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>>The former head of The KGB is not stupid and the effort to get incriminating emails and information about The DNC and Hillary Clinton was not stupid, nor the strategy of publishing little bit by little bit over the course of many months.<<

1) The emails were factual in every way. The things they said were the things they said. They just expose the real people in the hiLIARy campaign, starting with Ms. My Turn.

2) There is still not a shred of proof the Russians did ANYTHING. At All. It was The Meme That Stuck. That is all.


9 posted on 03/07/2017 2:31:13 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Not tired of winning yet!)
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“To say that less than 2 out of every 1,000 Michiganders, and similar numbers in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, were not affected by the constant drip, drip, drip of negative Wikileaks email revelations”

That damned drip, drip, drip of truth....


10 posted on 03/07/2017 2:31:15 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
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So, if Hillary’s criminality had been kept hidden, she would have won the election?


11 posted on 03/07/2017 2:31:43 PM PST by JimSEA
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It’s a good thing that Her and the “smartest people in the room” didn’t think to campaign a bit in WI and MI instead of AZ and GA.


12 posted on 03/07/2017 2:31:45 PM PST by IdahoVeteran
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The really tricky part was how the Russians got the DNC to write all those incriminating emails.


13 posted on 03/07/2017 2:32:15 PM PST by Flick Lives (I want to live long enough to see all Deep State operatives executed)
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Russia did not make Hillary take bribes or help her collude with the media or coordinate her campaign meddling in the Democratic primaries.... to say they did is fake news


14 posted on 03/07/2017 2:32:44 PM PST by seastay
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And it was Hillary who deliberately violated national security laws which were designed to protect her emails from Russia.

She lost? Her own d@mn fault.


15 posted on 03/07/2017 2:34:05 PM PST by ctdonath2 (Understand the Left: "The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the Revolution.")
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16 posted on 03/07/2017 2:34:43 PM PST by 4Liberty (PRESIDENT TRUMP: Making Private Property Rights great again!)
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Figures don’t lie, but liars use figures.


17 posted on 03/07/2017 2:36:12 PM PST by Quality_Not_Quantity
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The left is so discombobulated right now. San Fran Nan just accused the media of being accomplices in the hack and the media itself is hanging on for dear life to the now baseless Russian hack charge. I could also argue that Trump’s winning percentages in WI, PA, and MI were kept down because of vote tampering and fraud in all three of those states. Remember on election night how long they waited to call PA. For two hours the media said nothing while the Democrat fixers in Philly and Pittsburgh were looking for votes until they had to call the state and election for Trump. You can see and smell the air of desperation from the left. They’ve been caught red-handed on all of this nonsense.


18 posted on 03/07/2017 2:39:21 PM PST by dowcaet
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Today we learned from a highly reliable source (Wikileaks) that the CIA has the ability to disguise their hacks as originating from whatever source they happen to choose including the Russians.

If the CIA can do it so can Joseph Blow. So tell me how sure we are that the Podesta leaks came via the Russians. That claim is the only stone in the phony foundation for the House of Cards that ties Trump to the Russians.

So tell me. Was it the Russians, the CIA or Joseph Blow that hacked that DNC server?

And don’t forget that our best source for the answer to that question is the aforementioned Wikileaks who declared quite publically: “It was not the Russians”. For me that leaves the CIA and good old Joseph as the leading candidates.


19 posted on 03/07/2017 2:40:25 PM PST by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed. About time.)
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Well, if the stupid cow had done the right thing in the first place, and told the truth, we wouldn’t be commenting on this stupid article.

To argue that 2 people only neeeded to like SWMNBN a little more, WOW! How about if only the nut in Sarajevo had been off by 2”, WWI wouldn’t have happened.

Mr. Greene go home to Mommy and get your diaper changed.


20 posted on 03/07/2017 2:41:32 PM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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