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One more thing.
"I stated a fact: Obama lost California, despite his own multiracial heritage, because he didn't run a campaign that was up to the challenge of winning a majority of Democrats in this racially complex state."
Also, this isn't quite a "fact" -- more of a subjective analysis on your part. Sure, one could argue that the proof is in the pudding -- Latinos and Asian-Americans went for Clinton rather than Obama, Q.E.D. But it's just as likely, and this goes to my message below, that Clinton won California thanks to a diminishing-but-still-huge lead in name recognition. That's also not a fact, just a possible analysis of the returns.