Russia and our election

[Dill]

(07-06-2017, 07:11 AM)ballsofsteel Wrote:
Now your telling me that all that ONE SIDED negative email leaking and derogatory fake news about Clinton didn't change anyone's mind about who they were going to vote for before they walked into that voting booth? I say bullshit. Clinton's poor campaigning had nothing to do with the above.
Minds were changed. You had two bad candidates. There were alot of people on the bubble in the two weeks leading up to Nov. 7. For Right to act like this is no big deal is amazing.

Two quick points:

1. There is more to the Russian interference: 1) there was a decided effort to hack into state elections, and a company providing software for state elections was hacked.https://www.vox.com/world/2017/6/13/15791744/russia-election-39-states-hack-putin-trump-sessions. 2) One recent strand of investigation follows the trail of long time Clinton foe Peter Smith (now deceased) who was apparently seeking hacked emails to funnel to General Flynn. https://www.wsj.com/articles/gop-operative-sought-clinton-emails-from-hackers-implied-a-connection-to-flynn-1498770851

2. I agree that the Russian interference had a great deal of influence on the election (though Comey's actions might have had more).  The Trump campaign and Fox evidently thought the hacked emails had an effect on the election because they campaigned on them. Do you campaign on an issue that you think won't make a difference?  It is only after the election, to shore up Trump's legitimacy, do we now get the counter narrative that it had no effect.

Hillary was the front runner in fall of 2015, but the fallout from the Benghazi investigation plus the Russian interference gave Trump the victory.  Now we have an incompetent reality show star in office.

This one is really on the American voters, both those who voted for Trump and those who decided not to vote at all.