Democrats: Don't Freak Out Over Tightening Polls

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The only thing that really worries me is that this could end up being a tight win instead of a comfortable 2012 - 2008+ win.

However, as much as I'd love to believe the premise of this article, it sounds like overly-optimistic excuses. Hillary is the 2nd most unpopular candidate to run in the history of polling, only behind Donald Trump, her opponent. There is little people can do to convince me that Hillary's unpopularity and awful amounts of baggage isn't costing her and Democrats quite a bit right now. Relatively normal candidates don't have FBI investigations and email leaks absolutely wrecking their trustworthiness and image in the eyes of voters, with literally a weekly trickle of bad news or new "revelations" dragging down poll numbers. Hillary's own self-inflicted issues have been like an anvil around her neck this entire time - something other candidates wouldn't have had to deal with. It doesn't even matter if any of these faux scandals are worthy of coverage or even valid complaints - voters clearly care about it and it's hurting her. What happens when Assange releases his new take-down-hillary-to-elect-trump files in a couple weeks?

I don't really have anything against her in general, but I'm sick of her problems. Democrats could have better than this. Her connections and institutional support got the party to clear the way for her, and now we have to deal with this massive amount of baggage she brought with her and the implications it carries should she win and hold the White House with abysmal Bush-like approval ratings going into 2018 & 2020.

I really think Democrats would be doing a disservice to themselves & each other by even trying to ignore this. Maybe her approval ratings don't end up being so bad while in office, but what if they do, which her current numbers suggest? What then?