I'll go first. I had a take that if you see a bunch of advertisements saying to vote no on prop x, and nearly none saying yes on prop x, you should probably vote yes. Because if big money is behind an effort to sway towards no, there's probably corruption in the ranks.
At the time, much of the disdain for Obama was because he was black. There's an effort now to make it sound like it was solely based on his inability to make conditions materially better - and yes, that was part of it. But a lot of it was because he's black.
sexism with clinton too. she was a fucking awful candidate and human being, but let's not pretend that some people didn't hate her just because of that