2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary should hold more press conferences. [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Hillary Clinton is doing amazingly well. Strangely, magically well if what the media keep reporting is so correct. I'm surprised you don't realize this.
Maybe you're missing the same strong dissonance between her real-life performance and the picture the MSM keep projecting that is escaping so many others?
As you should recall, the media were ALL surprised when the nation reacted to the unending chain of Clinton scandals in the 1990s, reported every day in the news, culminating in an impeachment attempt, by tossing a pack of Republicans out of office. Perhaps you were surprised then too? And now it's happening again--media covering scandals every day without fail through her entire campaign.
If it's not to be deja vu all over again, I'd rethink that powerful, crippling "distrust" meme you've apparently swallowed and are pushing here. In spite of questions being inserted on every poll so they can be reported continuously until the next poll provides more, pushing this meme just isn't doing its job. Either liberals are rejecting her in large numbers or there is, again, something wrong with this picture...!
In any case, in spite of a deeply divided electorate, in spite of being the first woman candidate for President of the United States, in spite of hundreds of millions of dollars spent in attempt to swiftboat her, in spite of petrified media bias against her:
Hillary Clinton is running for president with enormous support from her party, her admirers and colleagues in politics, and her electorate (over 88% Dems right now, and some of us are conservatives). And she's winning.
And she'd almost certainly win with a better GOP candidate too. It'd be closer, but demographic changes are killing the white man's party and people all across the spectrum are very unhappy with the GOP's performance.