Disclaimer: This is a Hillary Clinton appreciation thread, which means that most people who come here really like Hillary Clinton. If you have criticisms, please be respectful.
If you haven’t had the chance, check out the daily News & Views and the Hillary Writers Circle, as well as the afternoon Hillary Hangouts and the #ImWithHer evening open threads. In addition, here are some new diaries:
Addison: Clinton in “red” states; the current set of battleground states may surprise you: AZ, MO, NC, GA, SC
Scan: “Third Terms” Are Rare… But Only By a Hair
sweatyb: BREAKING: Hillary Clinton Seen Palling Around With USAG’s Boss
nklein: Draft Dem Platform Calls for SCOTUS “Money is Speech” Decision to be Overturned
teacherken: Former RNC Chair: Americans can choose better than Trump
We should have known it was coming, folks. Hillary Clinton’s press was too good. In national and state polls, she is ahead of Donald Trump by landslide margins. She raised nearly $70 million in June and has more than $40 million cash on hand to Donald’s … on hand. 538 gives her a nearly 80% chance of winning the election in November, and electoral college models show Hillary Clinton winning anywhere from 340-something to 350-something electoral votes, putting states into play that have not gone Democratic for years, if not decades.
Meanwhile Donald Trump gives speeches in front of garbage. He has no campaign manager. He has no campaign organization. He is in serious trouble because of Trump University. His attack ad on Hillary Clinton initially showed her in front of money with a Star of David.
The outcome is too predictable. Predictable is boring! It’s a long, hot summer, and a month until the Democratic Convention, so the press is restive. Time to slap some nothing burgers on the grill.
I don’t even feel like learning the particulars of this one—just from the outlines, it seems really lame. However, it appears to give hope to certain deep, dark corners that Hillary Clinton will be shown to be too irredeemably corrupt to be president. Yeah, good luck with that. I don’t think it will have much impact in the long run, but I dread the amount of time and energy that will be devoted to it, until the press finds a new shiny object to follow.
Some tweets in the meantime:
This is your open thread.