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by curried_haskell 3493 days ago
Hillary's campaign failed because it was so fucking forced. Come on guys, you have to vote for Hillary because she's a woman and its her turn and shame on you for thinking this was a democratic process.

I think a lot of Democrats were put off and disillusioned. Hillary wasn't a candidate to be excited about, she was the candidate waiting in line whom you were told you had to vote for.

And so people stayed home.

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> Come on guys, you have to vote for Hillary because she's a woman

For me, one of the biggest WTFs this election season was when I noticed that Hillary was literally selling "woman cards" on her website. The article below mentions at was meant as a joke, though I'm not sure most people took it that way...

http://fortune.com/2016/04/29/clinton-issuing-woman-cards/

I was very upset at the DNC's very visible (no thanks to Russian hackers) attempt to discredit and downplay the Bernie campaign.