It was just bad timing. Reverse the tape and the Comey letter and Hillary wins, probably while picking up the Senate as well.
But ultimately the tape was basically the last bad news for Trump, while Clinton got the wikileaks for a couple of weeks, then bad Obamacare news (HUGE rate increases announced right before the election at a time when that was still politically meaningful), then Comey.
It was such a barrage of bad headlines for Clinton that it got drowned out - but this was at the time that the ACA was still a big thing - so if you are using the ACA insurance market at the time and Hillary is saying - this is as good as it gets and Trump is saying - we can do better - well maybe you believe him.
I also think that Hillary, by virtue of who she’s married to, was uniquely ill-equipped to take advantage of Access Hollywood.
It does make me feel old that Gen Zers are apparently hearing about the tape for the first time in TikTok since they were 10-15 when it came out 😵💫
It was just bad timing. Reverse the tape and the Comey letter and Hillary wins, probably while picking up the Senate as well.
But ultimately the tape was basically the last bad news for Trump, while Clinton got the wikileaks for a couple of weeks, then bad Obamacare news (HUGE rate increases announced right before the election at a time when that was still politically meaningful), then Comey.
Yup. Disastrous last two weeks of headlines, zero momentum into E-Day
man I don't remember that Obamacare thing
It was such a barrage of bad headlines for Clinton that it got drowned out - but this was at the time that the ACA was still a big thing - so if you are using the ACA insurance market at the time and Hillary is saying - this is as good as it gets and Trump is saying - we can do better - well maybe you believe him.