If you missed yesterday’s Open Thread, click here.
Here are some new diaries:
teacherken: New CBS/YouGov NH 45-36, GA 41-45, FL 45-40 Likely voters all candidates
breathe67: Refreshing CBC Interview with Hillary Clinton
Richard Cranium: Team Clinton coordinating with Dem House candidate in a very red district — and FREE BEER
Skibird: Reason #15/100 why we all should vote for Hillary
Chitown Kev: Are Trump and Clinton tied (44-44) in Indiana?
First, it appears that Republicans, whose candidate is doing this:
are looking for something! anything! to get “that woman” so they can preserve some small shred of their power. So they asked the FBI to release Hillary Clinton’s interview, and the FBI is “debating” whether to release them. It sounds as though they will at least release notes on the interview.
My guess is Hillary Clinton gave the interview with the sense that it could be made public, since nothing about her antagonists is surprising at this point, but that doesn’t make their actions less hypocritical.
In other, more positive news, Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine are challenging white Americans on racial issues:
"We white Americans need to do a better job of listening when African Americans talk about the seen and unseen barriers you face every day," Clinton said last month at the NAACP's annual convention.
She added, "We need to recognize our privilege and practice humility rather than assume that our experiences are everyone's experiences. We all need to try as best we can to walk in one another's shoes, to imagine what it would be like to sit our son or daughter down and have the talk about how carefully they need to act around police because the slightest wrong move could get them hurt or even killed."
Also, Emily Peck notes that it matters Hillary Clinton was the family breadwinner for a time, as she may be the first to truly understand working mothers:
Of course, Hillary Clinton is not like you and me, but for a short time beginning in 1980, she felt the primal anxiety most working mothers in the United States experience.
Bill Clinton had essentially just been fired, having lost his reelection bid for governor of Arkansas. Chelsea Clinton was only 9 months old. They had to leave the governor’s mansion and find a home. Hillary was the one who had to pay for it. She needed work. Bill had other things on this mind, according to a fascinating report earlier this week from Amy Chozick at The New York Times.
“She worried about saving for Chelsea’s college, caring for her aging parents, and even possibly supporting herself should the marriage or their political dreams dissolve,” Chozick writes.
The financial stress of that time period, Chozick says, is a driving factor behind some of Hillary Clinton’s more questionable financial decisions in the ensuing years ― the controversial investments and board seats. Even the Goldman Sachs speeches.
Perhaps even more profoundly though, the experience may have informed how Clinton thinks about policy. Any woman who’s had to work and raise a family knows that the U.S. leaves us hanging. Soon enough we may have a president who understands that better than any man who’s come before her.
Meanwhile, count Hillary Clinton’s ninth grade history teacher as a fan:
It's been more than 50 years since Pinellas Park resident Steve Zebos taught a poised, blonde ninth grader named Hillary Rodham in his advanced class, history of the non-western world. He remembers her well, and he would be thrilled to see her elected president.
"For one solid year, she made an A-plus average in the study of Japan, India, China, the Soviet Union, Pakistan. As a 15-year-old she'd knock Donald Trump today out of the box just understanding these different cultures, the people, the political processes, and the topography of these countries," said Zebos, 86, who is registered without party affiliation but sounds like he could lead Hillary Clinton's fan club.
"Even then she was more well-versed in my opinion than he is today," Zebos said. "I thought Hillary had very, very high character."
Oh, and even in the least favorable polls, Hillary Clinton is beating Donald Trump:
If you are considering volunteering for Hillary but haven’t yet done so, here is where you should go:
**VOLUNTEER**
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ETA: Now with a fresh new poll, because no open thread of mine is good without a poll.