| Soundwave said:
Biden would've won Pennslyvania and easily I think. He is from there and beloved there. I think he would've held the rust belt states. Clinton has always shown weakness in these states, this is not the first time she's but put back on her heels with surprise losses in mid-western states. She got hit by the Obama hurricane in 2008 and no one gave him a shot at all at the start of that campaign. She struggled again against Bernie Sanders in those states too. Those were already two red flags. Maybe it's time to just say she's for whatever reason(s) not very good at campaigning/connecting in those states. Obama, Sanders, Biden all would do better in those states than she did. She should have beaten Obama easily in 2008 and Sanders should've been no problem in 2012. I think she's good at beating certain types of politicans. Like if she could have ran against a George W. Bush or Jeb Bush (lol), she probably could win I guess ... but she has big, big problems with non-conventional opponents. Clinton is a very good candidate on the West and East coast ... but she has problems with the rust belt. Always has. |
She did win Ohio in the primaries, but that state also had more Republican participation in the primaries than Democratic. She didn't lose Wisconsin, Michigan or Pennsylvania by a huge margin, so i think that if she spent 2 or 3 more weeks campaigning and bringing a better message to the white working class in those states, she would have won them, even if narrowly. The polls falsely showed her leading in all of those, so she attempted to expand and focus on North Carolina, Arizona and Ohio, which unfortunately was a mistake, since it cost her the Blue Wall.
