Many Democrats have a shorthand explanation for Clinton's defeat: Her base didn't turn out, Donald Trump's did and the difference was too much to overcome.But it was all due to Putin's meddling, right?
But new information shows that Clinton had a much bigger problem with voters who had supported President Barack Obama in 2012 but backed Trump four years later.
Didn't Obama say the election was a referendum on his term? Apparently, the Dems didn't believe him.
Those Obama-Trump voters effectively accounted for more than two-thirds of the reason Clinton lost, according to Matt Canter, a senior vice president of the Democratic political firm Global Strategy Group. In his group's analysis, about 70 percent of Clinton's failure to reach Obama's vote total in 2012 was because she lost these voters.
Who thought O was going to give them what they wanted, but couldn't stand Shrillary.
"We have to make sure we learn the right lesson from 2016, that we don't just draw the lesson that makes us feel good at night, make us sleep well at night," Canter said.
The 'Putin Connection' didn't keep you awake at night?
His firm's conclusion is shared broadly by other Democrats who have examined the data, including senior members of Clinton's campaign and officials at the Democratic data and analytics firm Catalist. (The New York Times, in its own analysis, reached a similar conclusion.)
Well, there you have it! The details of the super-sophisticated analysis they used to arrive at this shocking conclusion, after six months of sleeping well at night with Putin pulling the strings, is revealed in the remainder of the article.