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Thanks, I somehow missed this, will read shortly.

Meanwhile, one aspect of the 2016 presidential coverage that drives me nuts is the omission that HRC's voter file was stolen and likely used by GOP, Trump, Russia.

Meaning they knew exactly who to target.

A campaign's voter file is it's Crown Jewels, it's secret sauce. It is the campaign.

HRC knew they had a problem in MN, WI, PA. They just couldn't figure out what was going on in time. Plus a zillion other things going on.

Again, will read your link soonest. It might help me fill in a few more of the puzzle pieces.



> HRC knew they had a problem in MN, WI, PA. They just couldn't figure out what was going on in time.

Yeah, the problem is that they took those states (and it’s MI not MN) for granted as safe blue states (which they had been for decades) and bought into the “Hillary is so far ahead in the polls she doesn’t even think about Trump anymore”[0] hype that they didn’t see the need to campaign there.

0: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/23/hillary-clinton-...


That's among the least of my criticisms. But it's easy to criticize.

One unintuitive thing I wish was more easily explained:

Any given move to gain votes will lose other votes. It's a wicked hard optimization problem.




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