Hillary: 'I'm ready to come out of the woods'

[StevieM]

269. I think that the GOP did very well in the 2010 midterms because the economy didn't recover

quickly enough. And because Obamacare was stigmatized.

That led to a bad election, which happens sometimes. But the GOP then gerrymandered the districts.

We actually made some gains in 2012, which was impressive given that the economy was taking awhile to recover due to all the toxic assets.

In 2014 we lost some more seats, in large part due to the Ebola scare.

What we need now is a midterm election with Donald Trump in the White House. That is something that we will have, no matter who our leaders are.

We still have an advantage over the Republicans in terms of changing demographics and a more liberal younger electorate.

I think you are underestimating the influence of the FBI, going all the way back to 2015. They repeatedly engaged in unfair tactics designed to assist the GOP. And I don't think their influence was marginal, I think it was overwhelming.

In spite of all the damage done by the fake email scandal we were still in line to win the White House, decisively, and to pick up seats in the House and to take back the Senate had it not been for the collapse we suffered in the final 11 days after the FBI rigged the whole thing. Their actions were totally inconsistent with liberal democracy.

I think that people who don't like HRC, or who want a new direction for the party, don't want to admit that. But the 2016 election was not about the issues--it was about an email server.