Hillary Clinton’s email server is why this race is still close

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WaPo:

Donald Trump is gaining ground on Hillary Clinton in the polls. Or perhaps more aptly, Hillary Clinton is losing ground.

While Trump’s image hasn’t improved appreciably for months — and he remains the most unpopular presidential nominee in modern history — Clinton continues to see her own image decline. It’s now at its worst point ever and, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll of registered voters, basically as bad as Trump’s.

And the reason is clear: The email story is absolutely killing her — and ruining what might otherwise be a coronation.

A new CNN/ORC poll demonstrates it pretty clearly. While polls at the start of the 2016 race showed Americans were basically split about whether her use of a private email server gave them pause about voting for her, it’s now clear that it’s a significant hurdle for a strong majority of Americans in voting for Clinton.

The poll shows fully 62 percent of registered voters agreed with the statement that her use of the server is “an important indicator of her character and ability to serve as president.” That number has risen steadily this year, from 46 percent in March 2015, to 55 percent in October, to 58 percent in June 2016, and now to 62 percent today.

Just 36 percent say the email server is “not relevant to her character or her ability to serve as president.” That’s down from 52 percent at the start of the campaign 18 months ago.

Behold the steady decline:

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The difference between now and before? While before people generally agreed that the server was a bad idea but were split along partisan lines about whether it was actually relevant, the issue seems to have moved steadily from being a nuisance for Clinton to a genuine — and growing — liability.

In March 2015, a CBS News poll showed 62 percent thought the server was “inappropriate.” An August 2015 CNN poll showed 56 percent thought she did something wrong.

But polls last year also suggested it was just another issue for partisans. An October NBC/Wall Street Journal poll showed 47 percent of voters said it was an important factor in their vote, while 44 percent said it was not. The same CBS poll in March 2015 showed just 29 percent said it diminished their view of her — compared to 65 percent who said it had no effect.

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Does the WaPo have a solution to un-botch her campaign?
If it does, I bet it didn’t include calling about 50% of all voting Americans names. (You have to see her try to backtrack out of this one!)

How do you un-botch the fact that you told your underlings at State to remove the headers from all classified materials so you could get it via your unsecured email server …… while you later tell the public that none of the emails you sent or received were topped by classified headers???

How do you un-botch telling investigators that you can’t remember much including ever even getting any training on how to handle classified information ……when later you tell the voting public that you followed all protocols for proper handling of classified information???

In other words, Hillary is screwed.
It is called, hoist by her own petard.
There’s no un-botching it now.

Oh, wait!
She’s RE-INVENTING herself AGAIN.
Her next speeches (after a 6 day vaca between this last one and the next) will be all about HER plans, nothing about Trump or his supporters.
We’ll see.

Apparently, there were many among Hillary’s supporters are among those who never see any news but what the liberal media wants them to see. They are beginning see that all those “vast right wing conspiracy lies” turn out to be true. I always assumed there were people that would not support Hillary if htey knew better; they are just too lazy to find out.

Rasmussen also conducted a poll after the FBI’s politically motivated decision not to indict and found that 54% of the American people disagreed and believed she should have been indicted. Since then, the FBI document dump offered even more evidence that she intentionally broke the law. The next round of Wikileaks could begin as early as this coming week with “teasers” being put out. Assange, if he is to be believed, publicly stated last week that the upcoming dumps would have a “significant impact” on the general election. Given that he previously stated that the next round would contain material that could get Hillary indicted (fat chance with this DOJ), there are probably some very nervous people out there.

If she were running against someone other than Trump, her candidacy would be over by now. However, if he doesn’t do anything stupid like he has in the past, I still believe he can beat her, possibly by more than the “experts” think.

@another vet: There still are all of those people who get free stuff and want to continue getting it from the left. Then there are those who will vote Hillary because of her sex at birth. They need the first woman president. Wonder if Wilber or Rin Tin Tin would have made good Democratic candidates? The first talking horse and the first dog.

@Randy: That is true that the dems have bought and paid for millions of votes which may very well keep them in permanent control of the WH. We shall see if the American people, for the first time in the history of the country, put a known felon in the WH. If so, voting at the federal level will become a fruitless endeavor because it’ll mean a large enough percentage of the population will have submitted to being subjects. Therefore, the Party will need to be kept in power for the “good” of the collective..