07-17-2018, 09:50 AM
(07-17-2018, 09:37 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: At the end of the day, people voting in those states caused it.
How they were influenced is beyond us. Certainly many things went into it, some completely false, but I don't think anyone who voted for him that was exposed to the Russian ads was ever going to vote for her. These ads only further entrenched people who were already deeply imbedded in fringe beliefs.
A case could be made that the DNC emails swayed Bernie voters away and towards Stein, but again, I don't know how much that really did.
I have to agree. I have maintained the opinion that Russia meddled, but they didn't alter the outcome of the election, really. There was a perfect storm of things that caused the 2016 result, not the least of which being Clinton having an enormous amount of baggage.
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