But why is Clinton doing so much worse now than a week or two ago. I don't really see what could have happened to change the race like that. Unless it is just her convention bounce finally fading away. Seems strange...
The emails were once again in the news. Everytime they pop up, she falls in the polls ...
And that's not a coincidence. The media wants a horse race. Whenever she starts to pull too far ahead, they spam more about the emails. It's like clockwork at this point.
The timing does seem to fit, although now it looks like the "scandal of the week" is more about a few thousand dollars of taxpayer money that would barely pay for a Clinton Foundation staffer for a month...
But....but...but.... but, the "Liberal Media" loves Clinton and is trying to stack the race for her.... isn't that the narrative that Trump apologists have been hammering for the past 7-8 months?
During the primaries absolutely 100%, not only in terms of total coverage that allowed the Trump campaign to win the primaries with the equivalent of over $1 Billion of free advertising, but also relatively little coverage of his actual policy plans, that are heavy on rhetoric and light on substance.
Arguably, Hillary had the worst media coverage of any candidate during the primary season, although one could make a case that MSNBC had a strong Hillary bias during the primaries, namely from several core anchors, as well as surrogates, etc...
Post-Primary/Pre-convention, Trump continued to receive significantly more media coverage than Clinton, although there was greater media scrutiny of Trump's actual policy positions than there had been during the primaries, and many media stories involving Clinton had more to do with how could she consolidate the Democratic Party base, of whom 46% supported Bernie in a two person primary battle.
Post-convention- Media starts to focus more heavily on Trump controversies (Khan, etc...) that were essentially self-inflicted wounds, and goes full-tilt on the Clinton "email controversies" and now "Clinton foundation controversies" that are mostly manufactured BS without any foundation in fact, other than in a worst-case scenario perhaps a lapse in judgement. Meanwhile the narrative in increasingly shifting into a typical "horse-race interpretation", which instead of talking about the actual policy implications of both candidates platforms, are feeding into the media spectacle, which courtesy of Mr Trump, of the 2016 General Election which is increasingly looking like an utterly sick joke.
