Friday, December 16, 2016

Even the Democrats’ big donors are not buying the ‘Russia did it’ excuse for Hillary’s loss

While the combined might of the mainstream media and the Democrat establishment from President Obama on down peddle the lie that “Russia hacked the election,” neither the American public nor the Democrats’ own paymasters are buying it.  Fifty-nine percent of the public says any hacking made no difference.
But even more importantly (to the Democrats), the Big Money donors seem to agree. They want something more than phony excuses.
Gabriel Debenedetti writes in Politico:
 …the wealthy Democrats who helped pump over $1 billion into Clinton’s losing effort have been urging their local finance staffers, state party officials, and campaign aides to provide a more thorough explanation of what went wrong. With no dispassionate, centralized analysis of how Clinton failed so spectacularly, they insist, how can they be expected to keep contributing to the party?
“A lot of the bundlers and donors still are in shock and disbelief by what happened. They’re looking for some introspection and analysis about what really happened, what worked and what didn’t,” said Ken Martin, chairman of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and a top campaign bundler himself. "It may take some time to do that, but people are still just scratching their heads."
Or, in the words of a Midwestern fundraiser who’s kept in touch with fellow donors, “A lot of people are saying, ‘I’m not putting another fucking dime in until someone tells me what just happened.’”

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