We're Doomed: (C) Stands for Cookie?

Hot Take: Hillary Clinton is not good with technology. From this story: http://gizmodo.com/hillary-clinton-had-11-blackberrys-while-secretary-of-s-1786108731 

  • HRC used 11 Blackberry phones at once. I mean....why? 11 Blackberries? By the seventh, doesn't one start to wonder "hey, maybe this isn't working out?"
  • HRC was only vaguely aware that there was a computer server installed at her house. The person who installed it didn;t think it was for her. But he built it...in her house...for not her...oh god the stupidity here is killing me.
  • And last, but most certainly not least:

HRC was the Secretary of State in the USA for Obama's first four years. I hope, early on in the job, that someone reviewed how information that was somewhere in the classified to top secret to kill-you-if-you-find-out spectrum was labelled.

But, apparently Hillary skipped alphabet day as there were 81 email chains that were marked classified on her unclassified personal server. This is a problem because, you know, state secrets starting wars and whatnot.

Then, being Hillary Clinton, she lied about it. Because of course she did. Or, even while months and months and months into this investigation, she claims to not have learned that emails marked "C" were classified. Either way, she found a new method of playing into the Republican and Trump construct that she can't be trusted. 

In tennis, you call these unforced errors. In politics, I'd call them dealbreakers. With this many weeks to go in the campaign, there are millions and millions of voters being contacted by volunteers for Hillary every day, at the doors and on the phone. When they call someone, say the not-college-educated white voters who are overwhelmingly indicating support for Trump, that says "well, I'd vote for Hillary, but I have three jobs just to afford raising my family, I'm still struggling, voting for Clinton, Obama, Bush and whoever didn't work in the past, Hillary lied about her health, lied about her email and I know Trump is the antichrist...but at least he doesn't have a filter and nothing else has worked so far..." The volunteer will not be able to come up with a response.

Calmly though, the race is still about the big states (Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Colorado,,maybe Michigan and Virginia). If enough non white voters turn out to vote, then none of this matters. If they stay home, HRC has a problem. She probably won't.

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