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[quote=Anonymous]Hillary was extremely good at running the Clinton machine that stacked the odds against all her opponents. She was ruthless, she was brutal, she was arrogant. She was cold and distant. Those were all reasons why she lost. A male demonstrating everything she did would have also been clobbered by his opponents. Successful politicians of the past were certainly ruthless but they softened that with other public personas and virtues that appealed to voters (fair or not). Hillary didn't have any.

Like Mitt Romney in 2012, Hillary was now viewed as out of touch with ordinary voters, which was hardly helped by her arrogance in handling the emails and the grubby Clinton foundation fundraising). If you're perceived as out of touch, you will lose.

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I no longer believe this. Hillary was as qualified a politician as you're going to get. Still and all, she continues to get shit for being "cold and shrill" unlike the magnetic Obama. When she gave her concession speech people on THIS BOARD were saying "she's so soft and maternal... I could have voted for THIS Hillary." Think of how freaking tough this woman hadto be to run the DC gauntlet the last 20+ years. She easily has to be 3x ballsier, tougher and braver than the men to get where she has. But that's not viewed as strength because she's a woman. It's viewed as being calculating and cold and shrill and robotic and inhuman.

I do not believe the us is ready to give a qualified woman a fair shake at this office. Not after Tuesday and specifically not after how people reacted to her loss. [/quote][/quote]

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