2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: There is no doubt it's been a tough week for HRC. [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)media did not cover this, the way it has, until now.
There was, oopsie again, that word narrative, a change in the media narrative over the last week that was extremely obvious to anybody who studies or produces media. Mind you, I have covered a scandal, so this is very familiar to me.
And that realization will depress the votes of democrats. This is going, the way this is developing, to lead to a pretty apathetic voting public, who in many cases (primary voters) will be pissed once they realize the problem. She is not a good campaigner to begin with, and YOU CAN GO ARGUE that point with her, since these are her words, almost verbatim.
This is going to hurt her in major ways. Myself and I don't care who emerges from the democratic convention, will not be shocked at all if she does not come out as the nominee. She is lucky that we had a long weekend... you can bet your ass that calls are being made on background right now to try to convince media to change the narrative again, towards a far more friendly narrative;
Her negatives are what, at 14 right now? There is precious little more ground to go to. And these kinds of negatives are considered down right deadly. New to scandals? I'm not.