Hillary Clinton Blames FBI Director For Election Loss

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/13/us/politics/hillary-clinton-james-comey.html?_r=0

Hillary can go to h-e double hockey stick.

I feel Hillary did herself in; she has nobody to blame but herself. The majority of Americans did not find her as trust worthy. I am by no means a Trump supporter nor am I a Hillary supporter. I guess I still feel the "burn".

Actually, she won the popular vote. Unfortunately, we have the electoral college in which swing states with small populations can alter the outcome in favor of who gets the most electoral votes.

They blame everyone but themselves

The reality is that Hillary had the entirety of the media on her side and spent more than twice as much yet still lost. She was a fatally flawed candidate from the beginning and the maneuvering the DNC did to ensure her nomination was precisely to guard against what happened in 2008 with another popular usurper like Barack Obama, it's proof positive of how flawed she was as a candidate if they had to rig the primary for her.

She really should of been charged and they're still investigating the Clinton Foundation which carries a lot more ominous implications than the email one, she has nobody to blame but herself for that. I think it was clearly deliberate and there was intent, Comey only opened it back up to save face since the field offices were rebelling and the investigation by the NYPD SVU had possession of Weiner's email so it couldn't be whitewashed until it was turned over to the FBI.

The admittance that Obamacare rates are going to skyrocket while choice of insurence providers will decrease was probably more important then the brief "reopening" of the email investigation which occurred at the same time.

First off all things would probably not turn out in the same way, in the sense of number of votes, if your president would be elected trough the means of popular vote. Second, the system was put in place to protect smaller states from being dominated by the larger ones.

Who thought anyone could out do Billy Bush?

I strongly believe that was the main reason working class America voted for Trump. The Obamacare disaster. People were looking to be saved from it.

Actually, there were two very good reasons other than the one you state.
One - The founders didn't think the common man capable of properly choosing the chief executive.
Two - It was a means to protect slave states from being overwhelmed by free states. Like slavery, the electoral college should be tossed out, and told "good riddance."
And how would Clinton have not won if there was no electoral college?

I'm able to see a doctor now, so it's not a disaster in my book.
And very possibly, Trumpcare might not look overly different from Obamacare.

Not sure why she is blaming the FBI director. He didn't really do anything wrong in my mind. I would think most of her anger should be directed at either Julian Assange or herself.

Conspiracy theorists had a real field day with all those emails to analyze. Some of the theories seemed to gain traction because they seemed plausible (and might in fact be true). There's just this huge cloud of doubt over Clinton's head (just how bad is she?) that made it very difficult for anyone to strongly endorse her. They could only do it meekly and unassuredly not sure what to believe. I'm talking about myself mostly. But I think I'm not alone in this sentiment.

It is the height of hypocrisy, liberals crying about the EC wouldn't be crying if Trump had won the popular vote instead of the EC rather they'd be talking about how we need to respect democracy and that we're sore losers. The EC is never changing, secession is more likely because you'd basically would need 3/4th of the states to ratify something that would disenfranchise them. This is a federal democratic republic not a centralized unitary state, the states matter and the EC ensures broad geographic support.

Clinton didn't lose because of the EC and people need to look in the mirror before casting blame

She shot herself in the foot with the "deplorables" comment. Her attitude was too arrogant. She should have been more respectful of Trump. And it wouldn't have hurt to have spent some time in the Rust Belt.

Yes, the "deplorables" comment was not wise. Neither were her degrading comments from a leaked Goldman Sachs fundraiser speech where she labeled Bernie supporters as "basement dwellers."

But the real reason she lost is because people were fed up with the political establishment screwing them over. The one thing Sander's and Trump had in common was that they both tapped into the growing disillusion the American people had with corporate politicians. The DNC managed to corral Sanders, but the RNC couldn't corral Trump. Now we are stuck with worst of the two.

Then she shouldn't have sent the e-mails. There would be no FBI director involved if she hadn't.