[JCzynski]

Wisconsin would not have been sufficient. Neither would Wisconsin + Michigan.

Also, her victory was so overdetermined that about five things had to go wrong for her to lose. (Email investigation, flawed campaign, the last-minute Comey letter, probably Bernie making trouble for months after he was statistically eliminated but that's hard to tell, Russia intervention, bad electoral college distribution, probably some others I'm forgetting right now)

[leereeves]

It's interesting that you refer to Bernie refusing to clear a path for her as "things going wrong". As if her coronation was expected and the path was supposed to be free of competition.

I think tough primary competition should be the norm, and she should have faced more than one strong challenger.

[akhilcacharya]

When you keep running without a path to victory you hurt the party. That was a fact when Hillary did it in 08 and a fact when Bernie did it in 16.

It hurt further because Bernie had an absurd cult of personality that Clinton did not have in 2016