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That's a snappy line, but it's wrong. Hillary went in to the election with incredible support. She beat Obama by 20 points plus in the polls. She had incredible female support. She was a Clinton, yes, but she was a woman running for president.

Obama won because he had such an effective online infrastructure, and because he was able to rally up volunteers using the Internet and focus their movements. It was a radical shift in campaign strategy from what anybody else has been able to do historically.



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