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PeterGM

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2. This is very bad news for HRC politically speaking.
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 10:26 PM
Feb 2016

"Other emails show Clinton appearing to personally lobby her former Senate Democratic colleagues to support free trade agreements (FTAs) with Panama, South Korea and Colombia. She had previously told voters she would work to block the South Korean and Colombian pacts."
This is going to hurt her badly in blue collar union states... I fear for Clinton that some of her private speeches are going to get "leaked" very soon and that will probably sink her campaign. She has trying to paint herself as Sanders lite, instead of running as a pragmatic centrist and now that these neoliberal centrist positions are catching up to her, she just looks even more untrustworthy, which is her single biggest problem...
I am starting to wonder if she's even a good politician... Don't get me wrong, she's extreme effective, but as far as elections go she's aweful. In 2008 she lost to a complete rooky but seriously charming and fantastic orator. This time she's up against a much more experienced and vetted candidate, but without the charm and oratory skills (which don't really seem to matter much in this election)... So she's done imo.

Tin foil hat time:
I think this part is the reason why they delayed the emails from the release feb 1... If this had come out then she would certainly have lost Nevada, a heavy union state.

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