Clinton: It's My Fault Trump is President

[LiberalLovinLug]

93. Thats a good point

I didn't mention that, and it truly was a death by a thousand knives. It was a war waged by Trumps team plus a corrupt GOP and Putin's cyber army, and probably Comey was in it all along as well. But I was always leery about just how much that affected the horse race. I always felt that the email 'scandal' couldn't be regarded any more wrongly than it already had been, no matter what "new" developments were talked about. Not to mention that a lot of RW rage at Democrats behaviour is, or must be, phony. Considering how little and sparse they have to work with. That's why they inflate whatever moles they find into mountains. (ie. a blowjob between consenting adults) They grab at whatever straw they can. They throw mud at the wall constantly hoping something will stick because frankly there just isn't a lot of real dirt to pin on Democrats, historically speaking. My point is that die hard Republican voters just want to have their ducks in a row, know who is bad and who is good. They screamed "lock her up!", but if pinned down to explain what exactly she had done to deserve it, I'd guess most would just glare back in a glazed over stupor. So for them, it didn't change anything. She was just even MORE guilty of something they didn't even understand or care about other than it was something they could rally around with Hannity.

And most that were planning to vote for her before Comey's action, had already been saturated so much with stories about her "damn emails" and had been riding a roller coaster for years already about false starts on this, where there were hints of some bigger charges coming, only to be followed by retractions. It was so obvious that this was just another hollow straw, like Benghazi, that the GOP was using to build some kind of nefarious profile of her.

So while I think it had some effect, I also think it was not as big a factor in and of itself. Bernie made it clear that it was a non-issue for his campaign. And as a Bernie supporter I certainly did not put her using a private email account, probably as a way to talk to family and friends, was a big deal. In fact I sympathized with her having that private account for such a harangued public figure such as she. I and others that preferred Sanders, did so for other more significant reasons than that. So any 'new development' of a non issue = nothing for those on the left.

So that leaves a demographic that were going to vote for her just before Comey's action, DESPITE years of hearing about her misuse of a private email server and still sticking with her up until then, were somehow convinced she was not desirable as President material to them because of that one more "new development" of not even proven misdeeds, but only an announcement of some new inquiry into other emails they had overlooked involving a third party. That these folks would, upon hearing this, would throw their hands up and say "That's it!...now I'm switching my vote!" I contend that this was a small percent.

But it was not insignificant. Like is said, a death by a thousand cuts. And yes, it surely did contribute.