She was a bad candidate. Period:
1. No charisma
2. Not very likeable
3. Comes off as an opportunist
4. Seen as a huge liar. For whatever reason Trump seemed to get a pass (or more of a pass) on this despite lying far more than her, and far more shamelessly. But, you know, it is what it is.
5. Seen as corrupt
6. For so many people, seemed to embody almost everything they hated about politics, a problem which was magnified in an election built around populist anger / a repudiation of business as usual.
And (drum roll please) last but not least:
7. She had 54819290056 problems/scandals/whatever! Whether or not you consider these "scandals" real or just blown out of proportion, people thought they were important and it contributed immensely to her character problems. She spent almost the entire election defending herself against one scandal after another!
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Please, let's not be so foolish as to think this election was an indictment of Democratic policies, or really, even Republican policies? This was an election where people chose who they hated less, and it turns out that in critical states, Hillary is hated or not trusted more.
And I must say, one of the biggest changes in the party going forward should be to ensure that the DNC never again rolls out the red carpet for a candidate as vulnerable and plagued with problems as Clinton, or really anyone for that matter.
Agreed. I knew this was gonna happen.
I thought Trump did a really good job hammering only in the last 20 days. Can you imagine against a Kasich with a united GOP & surrogates running around? They would have hit really hard from everything from Clinton Foundation to the emails to Wikileaks Private/Public & so on!
Trump never managed to hit her apart from the last 20 days because he was too busy defending himself. This could have been worse with a decent Republican candidate which would have brought the focus away from Trump & to Hillary's issues!
