[imron]

> I might buy this. Maybe. But she's a policy wonk in a time where "TV Charisma" matters more than competence.

It wasn't TV charisma that did it.

According to Donna Brazile, Hillary thought she had the electoral college vote in the bag, so spent big in areas she was already going to win in order to get out enough of the vote to ensure she won the popular vote also.

She ignored 'blue wall' states in favour of big cities.

In contrast, in the lead up to the election Trump campaigned almost exclusively in those blue wall states (much to the derision of analysts, pundits and commentators) holding rally after rally after rally.

And that made the difference, proving that he did have a path to 270 after all, and that focusing on the popular vote was a losing strategy when the votes that count are the electoral college.

"Russia. Russia. Russia" has been a face-saving distraction that is preventing the Democrats from identifying and fixing the problems that caused their loss.