2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Shame on all Dems who wrongly say "Hillary didn't talk about jobs or opportunity etc etc when they [View all]Buckeye_Democrat
(14,860 posts)I wanted Elizabeth Warren too. I hope she'll seriously consider running in 2020.
I like Hillary too, but not as much. That's just how I feel. I still voted for Hillary and all Democrats in the election.
What worried me about Hillary, at least in my area, was:
(1) She's married to the guy who signed NAFTA. That was very unpopular in my area because people indeed lost jobs to Mexico (including me on two occasions), and NAFTA was blamed.. rightly or wrongly. I don't think people are concerned about trade deals with countries that are more affluent. They're worried about losing jobs to people with a much lower cost of living. Mexico could be predominantly Anglo-Saxon and the fear of being pitted against cheaper labor would remain.
(2) She seemed to cozy up to Wall Street too much for some people's tastes.
(3) Hearing too many people say "where there's smoke, there's fire" in regard to the MANY investigations of the Clintons over the years. Never mind that they were mostly Republican witch hunts and no guilt could be revealed.
(4) Being married to the man who told this country that he "did not have sexual relations" with that woman. Was that Hillary's fault? Of course not, but I've encountered many people who never want to see another Clinton in the White House because of it.
Despite those concerns, I still didn't imagine that Trump would win!