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[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. Even if she does not think her campaign is coasting,

it sure gives the impression that it is. And that is exceedingly frustrating. Worrisome, even.

[zappaman]

4. yes, very concerning.

I'm concerned.

[BobbyDrake]

10. Concern levels at DU remain at concerning levels. nt

[La Lioness Priyanka]

2. hillary clinton does the barest minimum to get by?

LOL

[NurseJackie]

7. She's such a slacker! How in the world did she EVER get this far? ;-P

[La Lioness Priyanka]

9. when i think lazy, i think HRC

people are such fucking assholes to women.

[vi5]

3. Unfortunately the problem is....

..that when she does get out there, she gives the right wing freak out machine things to froth over, which gets them news coverage, which increases negative perception of her.

I'm not saying that sometimes it's not self inflicted but I think in general she's damned if she does and damned if she doesn't. If she just stays out there and doesn't rock the boat then she's "coasting". If she gives too many speeches there is too much of a risk of something small she says getting misinterpreted or blown out of proportion or (let's be honest) just saying or doing something kind of stupid or tone-deaf.

I'm not disagreeing with your basic point I just think there are risks in both approaches and I think her bigger risks are with being out there too much. The fact is that she's not particularly likable. And to beat Trump she doesn't have to be likable. She just needs to mitigate that unlikability to reasonable, "better than Trump" levels.

[NCTraveler]

5. Straight up sexist bullshit.

"is better at squandering a commanding lead than the Queen of Coasting, Hillary Rodham Clinton."

Full on sexist bullshit.

Glenn Thrush seems to have just started covering politics and is completely uneducated on the topic. Maybe he is simply a complete fucking moron. Either way, Mr. Thrush has clearly outed himself as an ignorant sexist pig.

I have all I need to know that Glenn Thrush is a white male. Sad when all you have to do it read someone's words to know that.

[stopbush]

13. Yep. Were she a male it would all be about Trump losing, badly.

[etherealtruth]

6. ?????????

Nothing is ever a "given" ....... but, not sure what the point in posting this is ....?

[BobbyDrake]

8. Sundial? No. Obvious? Transparent? Fooling no one? Absolutely.

Politico peddles a lot of garbage articles, especially since they believe that they get to decide the news rather than simply reporting it.

You didn't even try to comment or explain anything from the article. All you did was make a revealing move to defend yourself from the kind of criticism that you probably subconsciously knew you would deserve from posting something like this. "I am not a sundial." Knee-jerk defensive much?

[magicnpoetry]

11. It's Almost Impossible To Imagine Trump Winning,

but I've been saying that there is a current of dissatisfaction that I feel is being ignored. Brexit showed it. The youth feel like they inherited a social compact that doesn't reflect today's world or their values. There is a lot of disruptive sentiment out there and that creates a platform for people like Donald Trump. I posted last week that we must be more pro-Hillary and less anti-Trump and was bashed. But anti-Trump is still publicity for him and doesn't create the positive narrative that is needed to get enthusiasm for Hillary. And people can say it's willful ignorance, but people are willfully ignorant. That's why a pro-Hillary campaign needs to become a priority. Trump is a buffoon, so what? Everybody knows that. What people aren't giving enough energy to is the anti-establishment fervor that is rising.

[MineralMan]

12. Oh, bother...

What is your point in posting this piece trashing the Democratic nominee? Do you have a comment on this biased article? Or is your "sunny days" sundial the only thing you have to offer?

I'm sorry, but this Politico article ignores all but a single poll, and gives no credit to the candidate at all. It's a hit piece, pure and simple.

Perhaps you're concerned about Hillary's campaign. Perhaps you're very worried that she might not win in November. Perhaps...

[unblock]

14. this is a great article!

great at showing how stupidly biased the media is against hillary.

hillary does the bare minimum? omfng, look at trump! trump is phoning it in from his gold-plated toilet.
meanwhile, hillary is famously wonky, studying up on even minor policy points. few politicians work as hard as she does.

hillary coasting? well, i suppose if she's got the lead and the media is completely ignoring her other than to accuse her of something trivial, then yeah, i guess i could see how that might be seen as "coasting". but that's not really because of anything she's doing or not doing, is it? it's simply because the media doesn't give hillary's actual speeches half the air time it gives trump's empty podiums.

hillary refusing to talk to reporters? she's given over 300 interviews! meanwhile, trump has released zero tax returns and zero medial records.

oh, and of course, her unpopularity is her own damn fault? a quarter-century of republicans accusing her of everything up to an literally including murder, only to find that she's done absolutely nothing wrong. but nevertheless, somehow it's all her damn fault.


*great* article, truly awesome in its ability to capture the many facets of anti-hillary bias in the media!