I'll Tell You What Really Happened Without a Book

I generally don't think like most books about Presidential Elections. They tend to focus on national perspectives, meaningless DC chatter, headquarters nonsense, and the candidate. The other reasons is that generally we can tell most of the factors that decided a race without buying the book. So, you want to know why Hillary Clinton is not President today? Ok, I can basically tell you:

• The Comey Letters (announcing the new investigation and clearing her)
• Russian interference in the election
• Trump embracing white nationalists and racism
• Media coverage
• Sexism
• Double standards
• Bernie's attacks on Hillary
• Getting a private e-mail server in the first place
• Not visiting Wisconsin
• Ignoring Michigan
• Bad hires at the top of the campaign
• Not doing persuasion in the field program
• Continuously campaigning in big cities and refusing to visit other markets

There are other factors, obviously, i'm not the final arbiter on this. I think my list hits a lot of the reasons though. More importantly, I think my list does something that neither Hillary or the Bernie Bros are willing to do- it acknowledges that both sides are not wrong here. Comey, Russia, the media, and Bernie all were major factors in Hillary's loss, and deserve to be called on for such. Hillary also didn't run a great campaign. To only acknowledge half of the reasons for Trump's victory is to lie to yourself, particularly if you only acknowledge the parts that you want. Hillary was treated highly unfairly, and deserved better. Hillary also didn't exactly ace the test here. She would have been a great President, but you have to win the election first.