So who's reading "The Destruction of Hillary Clinton"?
Although Susan Bordo's cogent work is not getting the publicity that more gossipy recent releases have garnered, Bordo is an academic who focuses on on gender and cultural analysis rather than unsubstantiated juicy tidbits from anonymous sources.
From her publisher's website:
"Gossip is easy. Get to the deeper truth, with this in-depth look at the political forces and media culture that vilified and ultimately brought down Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Presidential campaign.
The Destruction of Hillary Clinton is an answer to the question many have been asking: How did an extraordinarily well-qualified, experienced, and admired candidate—whose victory would have been as historic as Barack Obama’s—come to be seen as a tool of the establishment, a chronic liar, and a talentless politician?
In this masterful narrative of the 2016 campaign year and the events that led up to it, Susan Bordo unpacks the Rights’ assault on Clinton and her reputation, the way the left provoked suspicion and indifference among the youth vote, the inescapable presence of James Comey, questions about Russian influence, and the media’s malpractice in covering the candidate."
Anyone truly interested in an honest appraisal of what went wrong in 2016 should check it out. You can read excepts on line or take a peak through the pages at the publisher's website.
http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/558341/the-destruction-of-hillary-clinton-by-susan-bordo/
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she visited Michigan several times. She had outreach offices in every state. Few people have the time these days to go to rally's, as well. So they are pretty meaningless. She was everywhere and your statement is not a valid reason for justifying her small loss in the electoral college. Remember Comey and remember the Russians. She lost because there was major interference in our election. Stop with the Hillary bashing. We're sick of it 
And yet people continue to grasp at straws to justify calling her "unqualified."
No, nothing sexist here. Move along now. 
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Especially this part:
Hubris was the reason why she lost.
Yeah, because we know that tRumputin is the most humble, sweet and nice person every to be installed into the presidency with the help of russia, the GOP WikiLeaks, deplorables voting, etc. to attack a gold star Mom (Mrs. Khan).
Did I miss something?
Your Politico piece notes in MI "the UAW flaked on GOTV commitments in the final days, and that AFSCME never even made any, despite months of appeals." A lot of people, smart politically adept people, assumed she was doing fine and did not require heroic measures. That's what the polls said. Hillary herself did campaign in MI.
To ignore what truly killed her in the last days, namely the unanticipated disaster that was Comey's release of that letter, is to be much more akin to climate change deniers than anyone in Hillary's campaign. Ignorance is indeed ignorance.
While various media outlets downplayed the effect at the time, the hard data is unmistakable: according to a Politico/Morning Consult poll taken immediately after FBI Director Comey’s end-of-October announcement that the FBI would be reviewing additional evidence in the Clinton email-server case, one-third of likely voters reported that the revelation made them “much less likely” to vote for Clinton.
In an election Clinton lost by just 77,143 combined votes in three states—out of well over 136 million votes cast—this sort of polling data is one indication that Comey’s announcement could have cost Clinton millions of votes nationwide. But looking inside the Politico/Morning Consult data, we find much more evidence for that conclusion: specifically, the fact that while 26% of the poll’s 33% figure comes from Trump voters, the remaining 7% comes from those reporting to be Clinton voters.
So it’s clear the Comey Letter was more than enough—as a matter of math—to put Trump in the White House.
Hillary did add additional campaign stops in MI and other battleground states in those final days when she saw how much damage the letter was doing. http://amp.usatoday.com/story/93356788/ But the damage was too much to overcome in the few days she had left. Comey's letter was the perfect sabotage.
