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Total votes for the republican candidate were basically unchanged from the previous few elections. The big difference was that total votes for the democratic candidate dropped off significantly from Obama's spike. Hillarys problem was she didn't excite people enough to get them to the polls.

Hilary's problem is that people didn't like her and chose to stay home rather than vote trump (whom they didn't like either).

With a different tone you might be able to engage in meaningful conversation. But launching toxic salvos like this will land with a fuck you response. But I think you know that...

Excellent example of the author's point.

Please don't be this vitriolic on HN, we cannot let this become Reddit.

Just click the timestamp, then flag and let the mods handle it.

This has to be a troll. Nobody can be this un-selfaware.

Actually yes they can. This person is what Nassim Taleb calls the "Intellectual Yet Idiot".

https://medium.com/@nntaleb/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211...

And there is a lot of them.

Aren't bad faith arguments like this from the Left the status quo?