So who's reading "The Destruction of Hillary Clinton"?

[SunSeeker]

34. So you care about the facts?

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.

Unlike the effect of Russian interference on the 2016 presidential campaign, the effect—in votes—of the now-infamous “Comey Letter” is knowable. 

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.

 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bigger-than-watergate-concerns-grow-that-anti-clinton_us_5850bb12e4b0b662c2fddebc



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.