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This edition: Why Did Hillary Clinton Lose a Close Election?

Episode Details

Original tape date: December 12, 2016. First aired: December 26, 2016.

Was it the Comey statement about the emails coming 10 days before the election, the Russian hack, or that blacks and Latinos stayed at home? Or was it something missing in her message about the economy that caused Hillary, quite unexpectedly, to lose key swing states that Obama won handily in 2008 and 2012? In an unvarnished post mortem of the election, veteran pollster and political analyst Doug Schoen tells Jim Zirin that voters rejected Hillary Clinton because her game plan failed to get across to voters how she would create lost jobs.

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Douglas E. Schoen Political Analyst

  • About this series

  • Conversations with Jim Zirin is a talk show designed to illuminate the news by taking the time required to understand and interpret national and world events. The series features high-profile guests from the worlds of politics, law, business, foreign relations, national security, counterterrorism, media, lifestyles, literature, the arts, and the military.

    The series is hosted by Jim Zirin, a leading litigator and contributor to major publications including Forbes, the Daily Beast, the Nation, The Times of London and the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of two books, The Mother Court -- Tales of Cases That Mattered in America's Greatest Trial Court, and Supremely Partisan—How Raw Politics Tips the Scales in the United States Supreme Court. Jim served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York in the Criminal Division under the legendary Robert M. Morgenthau.

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