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There was always going to be a little natural uptick with minorities this election for Republicans I think because Obama was not on the ticket.

You're not going to get the same black voter turn out as you would with Obama particularily with younger kids, take out the younger voters and older people of every ethnicity tend to skew more Republican, so that's what I think sways that.

Trump still got absolutely destroyed with minorities and would have against Bernie too. Bernie simply would've gotten more of the white male vote and the younger voter IMO, it wouldn't even neccessarily have to be huge numbers either. 80,000 here, 20,000 there, etc. does it. 

Sanders' rallies always reminded me more of Obama's rallies. More energy, more fun (hate to say it, but this matters), and more populist. Hilary has been noted as someone that really does not like to campaign a lot. She's good in debates, but the rallying part, she doesn't like to do, she had a very low number of rallies compared to what Obama and Bill Clinton did, Bernie also seemed to genuinely love rallies.

She also didn't have a great slogan or branding "I'm With Her" ... is no "Yes We Can" or "Feel the Bern" or "Make America Great Again", she didn't really have any signature issue that she was running on. With a few fixes she probably could have won, some poor branding and a weak campaigning schedule hurt her. Not sure if Tim Kaine was really a great pick either for a running mate.