Sexism Did Not Cost Hillary the Election

Real Clear Politics ^ | June 1, 2017 | Tom Bevan, Co-founder and publisher

[2ndDivisionVet]

It’s June 2017, and many Democrats (and members of the media) are still trying to figure out how Hillary Clinton managed to lose the 2016 election to Donald Trump. The consensus, at least for the past seven months, has been that Jim Comey and the Russians were responsible. Precious little empirical evidence supports the view the former FBI director’s stumbling on-again, off-again handling of the bureau’s investigation swung actual votes last November. As of now, at least, there’s even less evidence that any Russian meddling played a role.

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A coda to the argument against sexism as a contributing factor: In late January, a group of academics put on a live gender-bending re-enactment of portions of the 2016 debates, titled “Her Opponent.” Donald Trump was played by a woman, given the name Brenda King, and Hillary Clinton was played on stage by a man named Jonathan Gordon. The actors spent weeks memorizing the debate transcripts and perfecting the candidates’ exact body movements, facial expressions and speech patterns....

[clearcarbon]

"Sexism Did Not Cost Hillary the Election"

Gender wasn't the issue

[joma89]

Typical victimhood mentally from a demo_rat.

JoMa

[GraceG]

I blame all those people shouting “bill clinton is a rapist” at all those hillary rallies.

[OrioleFan]

She was an awful candidate who thought she was entitled. She even had the GOPe working for her and the DNC screwing Bernie, and she still lost; that’s how bad candidate Clinton was.

[capt. norm]

The media, not Hillary, was the biggest loser. Think about it...They "put the pedal to the metal" in an all-out jihad to get her elected and their efforts failed...MISERABLY.
They are now attempting numerous distractions while they wipe the egg off their collective faces.

[Tallguy]

Frankly there are more people addicted to identity politics in this country than not. That means there is a plurality of people willing to vote for “the Black Guy” or “the Woman” out of some sense of social justice. So for Hillary to point to a smaller block of voters who may have voted against her due to sexism is laughable. It’s like losing a ballgame 7-5 and bitching about that run you gave up in the bottom of the 1st instead of the walk-of 2-run HR you yakked up in the bottom of the 9th.

[PGalt]

Stale old cracka/rancid side of beef ALERT!

/Hillaryous

[snoringbear]

“Stale old cracka/rancid side of beef ALERT!. /Hillaryous”

God, I hope she runs again...

[smileyface]

...can’t be done. It’s dried on there.

[simpson96]

With all her health problems, maybe she'll be a human head mounted on a robot by 2020.

[grey_whiskers]

Sexism Did Not Cost Hillary the Election

Are you sure? I'll bet a lot more women voted for Trump because they were sexually attracted to him, than voted for Hillary for that reason...