She was offputting to a lot of people. Clearly. You can argue with those perceptions but it's pointless, that's how a lot of people felt when they voted 6 months ago.
History is full of people who might have made decent presidents but public perception did them in. Romney, Mondale, Humphrey...the list goes on. Michael Dukakis lost the '88 election because he looked goofy riding in a tank.
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