She was the least popular candidate ever? By that logic I should assume the measurement of favorability is popularity and that wins elections? Why didn'tpopularityhigh favorability help Romney, McCain, Kerry or McCain win? Or Sanders? Clinton had extremely high favorability heading into the election more on that later. These are very partisan times and I seriously doubt any candidate and leader from either party is going to have very high favorability. Another measure of popularity is to look at the vote counts aka popular vote. In which case, Clinton was just a tiny bit behind Gore and Kerry, but otherwise bested every Democrat since Carter with the exception of Obama and Bill Clinton's reelection.
I don't blame 3rd party voters. I do blame other things. I will say that Clinton was far from a perfect candidate. It was never going to be an "easy" win despite what many thought. The insane challenges (7 Benghazi investigations over 4 years, bulls*** email investigation, FBI reopening an investigation ten days before the election, the FBI not disclosing Trump was facing even worse, Wikileaks, blame for everything Bill did, unfair criticism by the media, number of false accusations, being a woman, and the attitude of many) are unlike any candidate has every faced. I still hear people lie about her regularly and it surprises me more don't correct them. I do hope the next candidate doesn't face the same challenges.
The email thing was her own doing so was the response to Benghazi, I don't mean the people being killed there but her trying to blame it on a video vs being real. She is always trying to cover something up, some things are fabricated yes but she suffered from a ton of self inflicted wounds and having the DNC stack the deck in her favor didn't help. If she were her husband she may have been able to get away with it, not because he's a man but because he has charisma and is able to connect with a lot of people and she lacks that. She also ran a poor campaign and ignored warnings from states that she lost, she is to blame for her losing as much as anyone. We all know she won the popular vote but we also know that's not how you win the election, she and her campaign were either too arrogant or incompetent (maybe both) to see what was going on. When you know your opponents will grab on to anything you do and keep it alive until the end of time you should be more careful about the choices you make.
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