Why did Hillary Clinton lose?

Question

Hillary Clinton outspent Donald Trump but lost. With so much evidence indicating that money matters, why do you think this happened? Considering the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, what conclusions do you draw about the influence of money in federal elections?

Answer 1

Hilary Clinton won the popular vote, but Donald Trump won the Electoral College. But in fairness, you can win the election, by only winning 13 to 15 states, due to their size of their population. It is an argument that is being made against the Electoral College, but if you add the all the votes of third party candidates, especially with what happened in Nevada, you will see that more people voted against Clinton, I recognize the argument can be made against Trump as well.

But Clinton's and her surrogates' behavior toward the those who were open to Trump, was completely rude, calling them deplorable and saying "there's a special place in hell if you don't vote for Clinton" did not help matters. Also Clinton more of less ignored the kitchen table issues that middle America cared about, while Trump hit those topics over and over again, while Trump did categorize some people with offensive labels "rapists and murders", I think the average American recognized the media misrepresented that comment.

Answer 2

Trump focused on swing states. He also focused on blue collar workers and got many of their votes by opposing outsourcing jobs, while Hillary was more into Obama's policy of outsourcing.

Hillary ignored them largely, preferring to campaign in states with more adoring fans and bigger turnouts, like California and New York. She already had won those states, hands down, and it was wasted resources going there. But given her poor health and falling over, maybe that was medically the best idea.

or

Hillary attributed blame to endless other problems: Comey, Russian hacking or collusion. Voter suppression.

Take your pick

She did win more of the popular vote than Trump, so you could argue she did win, in some sense. She also gave up, while Green Party candidate Dr. Jill Stein filed lawsuits to try to stop Trump. Courts seem reluctant to interfere in elections, except for gerrymandering. Hillary had trouble winning anywhere in a state that required voter ID. But if you don't try you can't win. Hillary should have put more resources into fighting the election results the way Al Gore did. Gore lost too, but it was very close and could have gone either way.

Money matters, trumps nearly everything in politics. Yet it depends on how efficiently, how wisely the money is spent. Trump had better financial advisors, while Hillary was seemigly overconfident. Overconfidence made her lose, above all. The polls all showed her winning. Trusting the polls can be suicidal