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2016 Postmortem

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Bill USA

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Wed Aug 31, 2016, 06:34 PM Aug 2016

A record number of Americans now dislike Hillary Clinton - WaPo [View all]

... here's the Washington Post making it's weekly post on Hillary's favorability ratings.

I commented on this article and encourage anybody who feels 'up-to' it to do the same. In my comment, in addition to mentioning the eight Benghazi Show Trials (Kevin McCarthy said the purpose of which was to drive down Clinton's poll numbers), I took the opportunity to criticize WaPo and the rest to M$M for not reporting on the fact that Comey had to admit, when questioned by Rep. Cartwright, that NONE of Clinton's emails puported to have Classified Info in them, - NOT ONE had a Classified Header on it. And he also had to admit it was a reasonable inference for Sec Clinton that these emails were not classified.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/31/a-record-number-of-americans-now-dislike-hillary-clinton?tid=a_inl#comments



Hillary Clinton hit her stride after the Democratic National Convention, riding to a double-digit lead over Donald Trump in some national and swing-state polls — her highest of the year.

As of today, though, Americans' views of her just hit a record low.

A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows 41 percent of Americans have a favorable impression of Clinton, while 56 percent have an unfavorable one.

That's the worst image Clinton has had in her quarter-century in national public life. Her previous low favorable rating this year was in July, when it was 42 percent, lower than any mark in historical Post-ABC polls except a few points in the 1990s when a large share of the public had no opinion of her. Her previous high for unfavorable views was in June, when 55 percent disliked Clinton.
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Comey tanks key GOP talking point, admits classified materials were not 'properly marked'
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/7/7/1546038/-Comey-tanks-key-GOP-talking-point-admits-classified-materials-were-not-properly-marked

MATT CARTWRIGHT: You were asked about markings on a few documents, I have the manual here, marking national classified security information. And I don't think you were given a full chance to talk about those three documents with the little c's on them. Were they properly documented? Were they properly marked according to the manual?

JAMES COMEY: No. [...]

MATT CARTWRIGHT: According to the manual, if you're going to classify something, there has to be a header on the document? Right?

JAMES COMEY: Correct.

MATT CARTWRIGHT: Was there a header on the three documents that we've discussed today that had the little c in the text someplace?

JAMES COMEY: No. There were three e-mails, the c was in the body, in the text, but there was no header on the email or in the text.

... MATT CARTWRIGHT: So if Secretary Clinton really were an expert about what's classified and what's not classified and we're following the manual, the absence of a header would tell her immediately that those three documents were not classified. Am I correct in that?

JAMES COMEY: That would be a reasonable inference.


video of Cartwright questioning Comey on lack of Classified Headers


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