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In reply to the discussion: I've noticed some "progressives" seem to think Hillary owes them something [View all]pnwmom
(108,980 posts)on Bernie Sanders, too, which Kurt Eichenwald viewed.
Bernie would have been having to defend his proposed bill to locate all Vermont's nuclear waste in a poor, rural, largely hispanic part of Texas -- among many other parts of his decades long voting record.
The GOP was ready to go after anyone we nominated. Don't kid yourself.
As for Hillary deciding that she could help people down-ticket, people here were complaining that she wasn't doing that enough -- that she wouldn't get enough accomplished if she didn't help bring about a more Democratic Congress.
So, when she had a 9 point lead, she started campaigning down-ticket -- and with 11 days to go, Comey dropped his two letter bombs.
You have wonderful 20/20 hindsight, like everyone else. But no one could have predicted Comey's unprecedented interference in the final days of the election.