2016 Postmortem

Like I kept hearing about Bernie and the primaries.

Wasted $ millions for ONE EC vote in Omaha because Obama won it in 08. Trophy hunting.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/12/the-advertising-decisions-that-helped-doom-hillary-clinton/

The advertising decisions that helped doom Hillary Clinton
By Jim Tankersley November 12

In the closing weeks of the presidential race, Hillary Clinton's campaign — and the outside groups that supported it — aired more television advertisements in Omaha than in the states of Michigan and Wisconsin combined. The Omaha ads were in pursuit of a single electoral vote in a Nebraska congressional district, which Clinton did not ultimately win, and also bled into households in Iowa, which also she did not win. Michigan and Wisconsin add up to 26 electoral votes; she appears not to have won them, either.

Strategic decisions can make all the difference in a close race. Clinton lost the White House (despite winning the popular vote) to Republican Donald Trump on the strength of about 100,000 votes in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. That is the definition of a close race.

But a review of Democrats' advertising decisions at the end of the race suggests Clinton and her allies weren't playing to win a close one. They were playing for a blowout. And it cost them.

Clinton and the groups backing her aired three times as many ads as Trump and his supporters over the course of the general election, according to data from the Wesleyan Media Project. Despite that advantage, the Democrats left several key states essentially unprotected on the airwaves as the race came to a close.


Clinton loses 32 counties to Trump won by Obama in 2012: http://www.nonpareilonline.com/news/local/clinton-loses-counties-to-trump-won-by-obama-in/article_4dccd98a-16ab-52a1-9c02-52f5dd1b8884.html

Posted: Friday, November 11, 2016 12:00 am
By Krista Johnson


The loss of 32 Iowa counties that voted Democratic in 2012 gave Republican nominee Donald Trump the state’s six electoral votes.

While Barack Obama won the state with 38 counties in 2012, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton claimed just six, an IowaWatch review of Tuesday’s preliminary vote shows.

Last election, Obama’s win was attributed to the larger counties he was able to maintain from his 2008 win in the state, giving him 816,429 votes to Mitt Romney’s 727,928.

But Obama lost 15 counties that he had claimed in the 2008 election, where he won 53 of Iowa’s 99 counties.

FULL story at link. Hillary did not get %50 in the Iowa caucus that she barely won BTW.