Recently there's been a big to do over the Russians trying to influence the outcome of the election by hacking the DNC e mails as well as Hillary's private server. Historically, there are plenty of examples of various groups trying to affect election results in various ways.
1. Various special interests and governments making donations and paying for speeches to family members or charitable foundations on candidates.
2. Senate majority leaders who tell blatant lies about candidates failure to pay taxes.
3. Campaign commercials that are false or distorted.
4. Releasing internal campaign documents to the media.
5. Manipulating the primary process to favor one candidate over another.
But even with all of that, and the fact that the actual hacking might be problematic, here's the deal.
The simple fact of the hacking and releasing of the e mail didn't have anything to do with the outcome.
It was to contents of the e mails. It's the fact that the DNC and the democrat candidates campaign were exposed as the corrupt organizations that they are.
Back in the 70's this kind of unearthing corruption was called investigative journalism and applauded, now it's just one more excuse for why Clinton lost.
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It's amazing that the losers can't get over the fact that their trumpeting of every Trump foible didn't convince enough people that he was worse than Hillary. And this is considering the possibility that every negative thing said about him may be true! Imagine being Hillary in that situation!! She and her supporters just couldn't find enough stuff about Trump that succeeded in deflecting attention from her own character flaws. Just consider how bad that makes her!!
I don't actually know if the Russians did or did not do what is said they did. However, I find it ironic that "outing the truth" is "tampering with the election" when that has always been a key campaign strategy. I guess it's only an evil strategy if someone else does it?
Exactly. I guess transparency is only good for the other guys. I agree that the Russian connection is tenuous, but it works for discussion. It was probably a 14 year old in his parents basement.
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