Generally when there's a landslide (as in the UK tonight) everyone's hot takes are mostly right and when there's a close result everyone's hot takes are mostly wrong.
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You probably CAN blame Corbyn AND Brexit AND Labour AND going too far to the left AND [insert hypothesis here], because you need some combination of ALL of those things for them to lose to the Tories by 14 points or whatever it's going to wind up being.
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That same logic can be applied in close elections, Nate. You CAN blame Jill Stein voters AND racism AND evangelicals AND Hillary’s neglect of Wisconsin, bc the margin was so thin anything was determinative.
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Are evangelicals not allowed to express their voice or something? Why are they being blamed?
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I don’t know what you mean? They abandoned the dearly held ideal that politicians should be morally upstanding and embody Christian values, while previously Christian values and particularly Christian sexual mores were at the heart of what they wanted from a candidate.
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