Was Hillary Clinton a terrible candidate?
Posted on AllSides January 17th, 2020
From The Center
As much as Donald Trump was hailed by Republicans for winning the White House in 2016, Democrats blamed their loss squarely on Hillary Clinton and her campaign. A closer look confirms that she underperformed a typical Democrat in key states in the race for president, even as she overperformed elsewhere.
On the surface, Clinton could be viewed as a more valuable candidate to Democrats than Trump was to Republicans, according to Inside Elections’ Vote Above Replacement metric. She overperformed a typical Democrat in 19 states while Trump overperformed a typical...