The Patriot Post® · What Was Clinton's Failure?

As many attempt to explain how Hillary Clinton lost the election despite all the manifest weaknesses of her opponent, all the support she received from the Leftmedia, and a huge pile of campaign cash, one reason more than any other seems to be on the top of the list. She was a uniquely bad candidate the DNC believed it could force to the top.

In 2008, the then-New York senator couldn’t garner even 40% of the Democrat primary vote and lost to that upstart and rather unknown junior senator from Illinois, Barack Obama. Though never admitted publicly by the DNC, there was much talk that, this time around, it was Hillary’s turn. That was confirmed by the WikiLeaks release of the DNC’s hacked emails, which revealed the effort to defeat upstart Bernie Sanders. The DNC succeeded in securing the nomination for Clinton, but not the presidency.

As for Donald Trump, he didn’t win because of racism, as so many within the Leftmedia are claiming. In fact, the numbers show that Trump won less of the white vote and more of the black and Hispanic vote than did Mitt Romney. Clinton received less of the minority vote than did Obama in 2012. Overall, Hillary won six million fewer votes than Obama in ‘12, and 10 million fewer than Obama in '08. It would seem the Democrats’ usual identity politics failed to work as well without Obama at the top of the ticket.

Hillary’s uninspiring and awkward personality, which manifests in a noxious superiority complex, combined with her abysmal record and her commitment to deceitfulness, was too much to overcome. Many Americans simply found her unbearable.