\u201cThey believed they were more experienced, which they were. They believed they were smarter, which they weren\u2019t,\u201d said Donnie Fowler, who was consulting for the Democratic National Committee during the final months of the campaign. \u201cThey believed they had better information, which they didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n
Nor did Brooklyn ask for help from some people who\u2019d been expecting the call. Sanders threw himself into campaign appearances for Clinton throughout the fall, but familiar sources say the campaign never asked the Vermont senator\u2019s campaign aides for help thinking through Michigan, Wisconsin or anywhere else where he had run strong. It was already November when the campaign finally reached out to the White House to get President Barack Obama into Michigan, a state that he\u2019d worked hard and won by large margins in 2008 and 2012. On the Monday before Election Day, Obama added a stop in Ann Arbor, but that final weekend, the president had played golf on Saturday and made one stop in Orlando on Sunday, not having been asked to do anything else. Michigan senior adviser Steve Neuman had been asking for months to get Obama and the first lady on the ground there. People who asked for Vice President Joe Biden to come in were told that top Clinton aides weren\u2019t clearing those trips.<\/p>\n
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When top aides to the Trump campaign mapped out the best-case scenarios for election night, they always fell short of 270, and Michigan was always the state that they couldn\u2019t see a way through.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s last stop of the election was a massive rally in Michigan that went on past midnight, his campaign homing in on Trump\u2019s chances there largely from nervousness it sensed coming out of Brooklyn.<\/p>\n
Walking out at the end, Trump turned to his running mate, Mike Pence, almost confused: \u201cThis doesn\u2019t feel like second place,\u201d he said, according to a person familiar with the conversation.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The party establishment gave Coakley a 2nd<\/sup> chance, and she lost the governor’s race \u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\nIn Massachusetts, the only state to go for McGovern in 1972 \u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n
Against a Republican.<\/p>\n
The Democratic Party establishment did the same thing when Clinton snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in 2008 in the primary, when she just could not bring herself to apologize for voting for Bush’s war in Iraq, and they gave her another chance.<\/p>\n
And she lost to an inverted traffic cone, aided and abetted by a Clintonite political machine that was too outlandishly incompetent to be the model for a Rowan Atkinson Britcom.<\/p>\n
Fire them all \u2026\u2026\u2026 Out of a cannon \u2026\u2026\u2026 And into the sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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