Better that than being overconfident. Maybe the private/campaign polls are making relatively pessimistic or at least conservative assumptions about public opinion and turnout, which is preferable to repeating Clinton's 2016 mistakes such as expanding into reach states and not doing enough in swingy ones that they falsely thought they had…
Better that than being overconfident. Maybe the private/campaign polls are making relatively pessimistic or at least conservative assumptions about public opinion and turnout, which is preferable to repeating Clinton's 2016 mistakes such as expanding into reach states and not doing enough in swingy ones that they falsely thought they had locked down.
Though if not for Comey and the media's e-mail coverage, who knows, those optimistic assumptions might actually have panned out....
She almost certainly would have won without Comey violating the rulebook. But the Clinton campaign shouldn't have been so confident in a contest that was that close to start with.
Better that than being overconfident. Maybe the private/campaign polls are making relatively pessimistic or at least conservative assumptions about public opinion and turnout, which is preferable to repeating Clinton's 2016 mistakes such as expanding into reach states and not doing enough in swingy ones that they falsely thought they had locked down.
Though if not for Comey and the media's e-mail coverage, who knows, those optimistic assumptions might actually have panned out....
She almost certainly would have won without Comey violating the rulebook. But the Clinton campaign shouldn't have been so confident in a contest that was that close to start with.