The letter that changed the world
by digby
I’m just putting this out there for the record. As Nate Silver points out here, a handful of votes in across several states are what made the difference in this last election and the reason it happened was because of James Comey.
Clinton “should have” won by 20 points, just to be sure, and should have been a different person and should not have tempted fate by even running in the first place when she knew the media was determined to take her down at long last. She should have known that she could not win. All of those things are true and in retrospect she probably wishes she hadn’t bothered and had let Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders face that odious homunculus handed freak from outer space.
Nonetheless, she came close to winning with almost three million more people, voters, choosing her over said odious, homunculus handed freak from outer space and there’s no evidence that failing to campaign more in certain states would have made the difference. What made the difference was the most powerful lawman in the nation smearing her in the last week of the election. There are many reasons we can point to, but that is the one that nobody can dispute because the polling in both campaigns showed the drop.
Here’s where we are:
