2016 Postmortem

I was wrong to have done so and I am glad that the alert did not result in a hide.

I felt that HRC ran a good campaign, one that would have produced victory by a decent margin, and carried in a Democratic Senate, had it not been for the Comey letter.

She was up against a lot in this campaign, not the least of which was the drip-drip-drip from the Russian hackers.

At the end of the day, the fake email scandal was the most successful fake scandal in American history. It metastasized and completely redefined her. She was extremely popular a few years ago.

I think you may be overestimating how easily she could fight it off. It is hard to convince people that every Republican in the country is lying about everything they have said for two years. I also think that she didn't want to respond in too partisan of a manner because part of her strategy was to win a decent share of the Republican vote. I think that the internal polling indicated that it was working until the final week of the campaign when the Comey letter hit her like a hammer.

The lesson to be learned here is to recognize the limits of our efforts to be non-partisan. That goes double for Barack Obama's decision to appoint Comey to begin with.