Why are people still losing their minds over Hillary?

[karynnj]

112. He won the debates - which required short answers.

He also had even before he was the nominee been one of the best Democrats on the talk shows. The fact is that he was very good in the early primaries when he could speak to people. A person I know from Iowa, made the observation that in 2004, the reason he won was that once he spoke to someone and they committed to vote for him - a very high percent never changed to someone else. His observation was that he was unusually good at this.

In the general election, you basically need to communicate mostly by tv --- and the media really gave him very little time to speak on anything. He basically had just his convention and the three debates. Consider that after the media gave hours of coverage to men disputing the Navy account of his record - they refused to cover his short statement made before the firefighter's convention addressing this.

Consider how much time was given to Obama to address the questions on Reverend Wright. Imagine Obama's remarkable speech not getting coverage. That was what happened in 2004 - with that speech, with his speech on Iraq and his his speech on non state terrorism, his speech on dealing with climate change, and his healthcare speech. All designated the major policy speeches.

In 2000 Gore's were covered, in 2008 Obama's were and in 2012 Romney's were. In 2016, EVERY speech of Trump's appeared to be going on at times for nearly an hour. Clinton's main speeches were covered, but she got way less time than Trump. But in 2004, you often had Candy Crowley on CNN speaking about Kerry's speech from the parking lot - with maybe a two minute sound bite, usually chosen by her and usually the same sound bite against Bush.