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In reply to the discussion: Reminder: HRC lost the Electoral College by less than 100K votes spread over 3 states. [View all]Nixie
(17,000 posts)WOW, your own words and summation show what we all saw and understood, so the rest of what you wrote is irrelevant to what this OP is about. Copying and pasting unrelated words don't change what you summarized yourself. I didn't even read the rest of the superfluous words and stopped when you, yourself, made the same point as the OP. There were more than just Republicans shooting Hillary, and we know who and what was happening. You have said there were multiple "shooters" (your word analogy). Yes, we know that, and the OP is correct in identifying them.
Bottom line is that it's known that Democrats will be shot at (your words in the fatal shot analogy) by Republicans, but Democrats shouldn't be shooting other Democrats. In the case illustrated here, it seems the Reagan Democrats in the states mentioned were convinced that Democrats were not helping them, and we know who helped contribute to that.