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hillary was a historically weak candidate for many reasons both outside of her control and of her own making that nonetheless had a decent shot at winning because her opponent was a walking cartoon of a man who has the brain of a particularly deceitful gorilla.

through a combination of unforced campaign errors, a right wing media machine that has been denigrating her for 30 years, a level of conceit that bordered on egomaniacal on her part (how many variations of "it's her turn" did we hear in 08 and 16?), and some very unfortunately timed bad press, she managed to lose.

i was a big bernie supporter in 16 and 20, but i can't say whether he would have won. he certainly had less long-term baggage that hillary did, but it's hard to say for sure if that would have been enough to balance out the full blown red scare ad campaign the gop would have no doubt trotted out against him. i like to think he would have had a good shot, but it's literally impossible to say anything with confidence about 2016 election hypotheticals. it was a wild year.

all that said, i would change the result of nixon/mcgovern.