Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: A pass-agg reminder: at this point in the 2016 cycle: [View all]StevieM
(10,500 posts)I do believe that the Comey press conference, which also led to a drop, prevented a recovery that had long been expected.
I don't agree that giving the SD emails earlier would have prevented an investigation and some kind of story, it just would have meant that the GOP ran with a somewhat different story. But they were always going to make up a reason to say that the FBI had to investigate her and the FBI was always going to do just that.
Had Hillary not run for president there would have been no story about an email server, let alone an FBI investigation.
Let me put this in a way that I think you can more easily associate with: If Wes Clark had been the 2004 nominee, instead of John Kerry, there would have been a group similar to the Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth that was telling outrageous stories about Clark. The only thing that would have changed would have been the specifics of the lies, not whether or not there were reprehensible lies being told about the 2004 nominee.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden