re: #255 KGxvi

I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again: Hillary Clinton was a bad candidate.

This should not have come as a surprise to anyone this year. We learned this eight years ago when she lost to a black guy who had been in national politics for four years and had a funny sounding (to some) name. She should have waltzed to the nomination in 2008 but lost. I’m fairly certain that had Biden run this year, she’d have lost again. I’m also fairly certain that there were more than a few Democrats out there that could have beat her in the primary. She has been in the public eye for a quarter of a century (just at the national level), people’s opinions of her were baked in from the beginning and anything that happened just served to confirm those opinions (either she’s the victim of a vast right wing conspiracy or she’s corrupt to the bone).

As far as the media goes, Chuck Todd did a cross-pod with Keepin It 1600 and his MTP pod. In it, he admitted that the media basically covered Clinton as a potential/presumptive (I forget which word, he used) president and treated Trump like a celebrity who accidentally ran (or something similar). That’s probably a fair assessment of the coverage. And probably explains why the voters who had a negative view of both nominees broke overwhelmingly for Trump at the end.

wow…some people don’t like candidate. She was a BAD candidate.
Millions more absolutely detest Trump but he won…I guess that makes him GOOD.