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Why Hillary Lost

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Proper Analysis of the Election Result will require more time to elapse
The reason that Hilary lost, is quite simply because Trump won.
This book appears by both Title and content to be an attempt to cash in early on those with whom the title resonates. The book claims to provide the answer but, to me at least, it provided no earth shattering information that I had not already worked out myself. Granted the author has gathered the various reasons together in a book but there is still no escaping the obvious.
There are two ways to approach the Election result but the author opts for the negative by the entitlement of the book. It could have as easily been titled "Why Trump Won" but I suspect that the vast majority of Democratic voters to whom this book is in my mind targeted would have found difficulty buying a book with such a title. The book is aimed at the Democratic Party faithful and is structured and argued as such. The title alone provides tones of negativity.
It seems to me that whilst you can try, as Arvin Vohra does, to provide explanations, a paragraph would suffice to succinctly explain the result of the 2016 Presidential Election. I personally always believed Trump would sneak a victory. It has certain parallels with the UK EU Referendum result. In both the polls generally predicted the wrong result albeit that the results were expected to be close.
It strikes me that the reason that the pollsters failed was that if an elector is going to cast a vote for a cause heralded as xenophobic then they either don't disclose their voting intentions or lie. What can be learned is that when a result is likely to be close Polls cannot be relied upon.
The result represented a kick in the teeth for a political establishment, which is perceived, especially after the bank bailouts of 2008, as increasingly out of touch with the majority of the electorate.
I'm afraid I found this book rather uninformative and disappointing.

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