Hillary Clinton looks back on 2016, and gets a lot wrong In "What Happened," Hillary Clinton wrote that her loss to President Trump in Wisconsin caught her by surprise. "Polls...
| |  | | Democracy Dies in Darkness | | | | | | | | | | The truth behind the rhetoric | | | | | | Hillary Clinton looks back on 2016, and gets a lot wrong In "What Happened," Hillary Clinton wrote that her loss to President Trump in Wisconsin caught her by surprise. "Polls showed us comfortably ahead, right up until the end," she wrote. Surprise turned to indignation in a weekend speech in Selma, Ala., where Clinton was commemorating the struggle for civil rights. She was the first nominee to run for president without the Voting Rights Act in place, she said, and 40,000 to 80,000 Wisconsinites were turned away from the polls because of their skin color, age or "whatever excuse." Trump won Wisconsin by fewer than 23,000 votes, so these are big claims. Clinton also said that voter registration declined in Georgia after the Voting Rights Act was "gutted." When the Supreme Court struck down a key section of the Voting Rights Act in 2013, its ruling had no effect on Wisconsin, and although it did cover Georgia, voter registration there actually increased. Wisconsin enacted a voter ID law before the 2016 election, and some studies show that such laws have a deterrent effect on minority voters and those who tend to vote Democratic. But no study supports Clinton's claim of 40,000 to 80,000 voters turned away at the polls. Clinton gave a misleading assessment of her loss and made several factual errors. We gave her Four Pinocchios. |  | | Enjoy this newsletter? Forward it to someone else who'd like it! If this e-mail was forwarded to you, sign up here, for the weekly newsletter. Hear something fact-checkable? Send it here, we'll check it out. Harvard Law grad from California calls for geographic diversity Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he wants to hire fewer people from the "Boston-DC corridor" and more from "the heartland." Notice that he's calling for geographic (not racial or gender) diversity. When we asked the State Department about these statements, they said about 53 percent of new foreign service officers in 2017 had "attended university in just six states and D.C.: California, District of Columbia, Massachusetts, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia." Hold on a minute. Where people go to college isn't always the same as where they're from, as Pompeo well knows, since he was born in California, went to West Point (New York) and then Harvard Law (Massachusetts) before moving to Kansas. Almost all the best schools for international relations are on the East Coast. So, Pompeo may be onto something with his call for geographic diversity, but his data don't prove his point, and we gave him Three Pinocchios. | | | Even more evidence that vaccines don't cause autism A new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine "does not increase the risk for autism, does not trigger autism in susceptible children, and is not associated with clustering of autism cases after vaccination." The researchers tracked 657,461 children born in Denmark from 1999 through 2010, "with follow-up from 1 year of age and through 31 August 2013." In other words, a mountain of solid evidence. We're always looking for fact-check suggestions. | | | | | What is socialism? | | President Trump and his allies are constantly warning about the perils of "socialism" in America. Here's a guide for readers. | | By Glenn Kessler • Read more » | | |  | | | Recommended for you | | |  | | | Get The Trailer newsletter | | News and insight on political campaigns around the country, from David Weigel. 435 districts. 50 states. Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday evenings. | | Sign Up » | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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