Posted on 11/17/2016 7:27:17 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
Hillary Clinton's campaign ignored pleas from staff members for the candidate to boost her efforts in Michigan and Wisconsin, two unexpected battleground states, The Huffington Post reported Wednesday.
The two states, considered safely Democratic by virtually all pollsters ahead of the election, swung for Donald Trump on Election Day, securing the Republican his shocking victory.
One senior operative told The Huffington Post that in Michigan, which Clinton is on track to lose by about 12,000 votes, her campaign's canvassing operation was one-tenth the size of Democratic candidate John Kerry's in 2004.
In Wisconsin, local campaign officials were forced to raise $1 million in last-minute get-out-the-vote funds after Clinton's national campaign declined to provide it, operatives told The Huffington Post.
Clinton's Wisconsin office also reportedly lobbied for the campaign to send African-American surrogates to boost Democratic turnout in Milwaukee. Clinton received 39,000 fewer votes in Milwaukee County than Barack Obama did in 2012, and she lost the state by about 27,000 votes, thanks to lower turnout in three key counties.
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Arrogance and hubris within Hillaryland??? Is anyone really surprised at this?/ Clearly they didn’t think those states such as Michigan and Wisconsin were at risk at all.
SOME people in her inner circle must’ve realized what was coming. Happily, she was too arrogant to listen. After all, she IS the smartest woman in the country ...../S
All the CLI-TONS are arrogant .
She did not go to Wisconsin once.
The beauty of the electoral college shines brightly.
Wow..
Unfortunately, the uber-liberal city is now without a place to converse
about micro-aggressions, plot protest marches or swap quinoa recipes.
Too bad.
BTW, I hear the out-of-work Clinton types are planning a Jobs Festival,
hoping for jobs requiring post-graduate degrees in "Gender Identity,"
"Climate Change Kills" and "Men Are Scum."
And, I suspect few of these Smart People were willing to stand up and tell her that her arrogance was going to cost her the election before Nov. 8.
Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad..................
Just like Hillary ignored dozens of requests to add security in Benghazi. They must be all too busy to listen and execute on things.
One important takeaway from this election is that all the pollsters and other so-called pundits were WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!!
I hope all the concern trolls that spent months and months coming here to tell us that Trump couldn't win because of these blasted polls learned something from this.
IMHO Hillary was so out of touch, she actually thought struggling middle-class Americans wanted to pay more taxes just so she could continue Obama’s flooding America w/ Third world parasites (AKA as Democrat voters).
Not once did Hillary acknowledge that the millions of Muslims she pledged to import were the same savages butchering “infidels” in Paris, London, Berlin, San Bernardino, Orlando and Manhattan.
It’s so delicious that their own lying pollsters led them over the cliff.
SHE wanted to do it HER WAY...............and she did............
She thought Eleanor Roosevelt would swing those states. She told Killary she could.
A feeble, absent minded drunk? Jeez, how could she possibly lose at anything?
Looks like death warmed over...
One might ask at this point....what exactly of ‘talent’ does Hillary have....or ever had? So many bad decisions....not wisely able to make the best decisions?
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