Hillary Clinton email megathread

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She has become a complete disaster since starting her campaign.  Seriously, it would only be a plus for Democrats if she dropped out tomorrow.  Exactly what advantage does she still have at this point?  Being a woman?  That ship has sailed.  It's not like any women who have ever voted Republican in the past 20 years are going to support her now.  There are plenty of other Democratic women who could run.

Elizabeth Warren should have ran, or even Kristen Gillibrand.

They still can and very well might in a post-Hillary field.  Warren is perfect for reassembling the Obama coalition, and she has room to reach a couple % more of the rural white vote on economic grounds to offset any fall in black turnout.  Not sure what is so special about Gillibrand, though.  I would prefer Klobuchar among female Dem senators.

What post-Hillary field? People think Hillary will imminently drop out because of the email thing? Hillary is neither going to drop out nor lose the support of the establishment until the nomination is clinched by someone, and that someone is overwhelmingly likely to be her.

Calm down, everyone.

[Bull Moose Base]

The degree to which some Democrats go "there's no story here!" based on pure partisanship is distressing. Clinton was a Cabinet official and this is an offense any anonymous mid-level bureaucrat would be fired for. The degree to which rules everyone else has to follow get regularly flouted by the Clintons is appalling and I hope this is finally the story that nails these vipers.

I don't know if there's no story but there's no likely effect on the election. This won't keep her form being nominated or, come the general election, rank high on the list of voters' concerns. As others here are saying, this fits the pattern of the GOP outrage machine pouncing on what they think will be a politically fatal scandal that ends up not mattering.

[Bull Moose Base]

Hillary won't be indicted, or forced from the race, or lose the race because of this email nothing. The end.

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This is rather big news. Apparently, Hillary's server was not professionally wiped clean. Rathe, the emails Hillary deemed personal were just deleted in the ordinary course, in the way you or I would do it. That means they are probably recoverable, and we will find out whether there were emails deleted that were in fact not personal, but rather related to government business.

If a lot of emails are government related, and many embarrassing, then it will be hard for Hillary to claim it was just inadvertent error that some emails were deleted that should not have been. In fact, it will confirm that she is a liar. On the other hand, if the deleted emails are in fact personal, or just a few were government related, and not embarrassing, suggesting inadvertent error, then she will get a new lease on political life. So a lot rides on how this one turns out - a huge amount in fact.

It is odd that team Hillary has been stonewalling on this one. Why didn't they say long ago that there was no professional wipe, but ordinary deletion, that looks far less sinister? It suggests that team Hillary really did not want to clarify that the deleted emails would be relatively easy to recover. Which sort of suggests that there is some worry about what might be found there.

We shall see.

I think you're missing the most likely scenario.

[Bull Moose Base]

Not sure what to make of this, but the NY Post allegedly quotes an unnamed Hillary legal advisor as saying it's time for her to lawyer up, because she is so legally vulnerable, but that Hillary is in denial. The article says that the investigation is moving along quickly, and should be finished by the end of the year.

It looks like someone's not being careful enough. But that someone is you in regard to checking by-lines. This article, like this investigation it seems, has zero value.

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Not a fan of Ed Klein I see. You think he made it all up?

I do. Look up his track record/Clibton obsession if you're not familiar with him. He clearly makes stuff up and the NY Post and FOX rewards him for it.