Calm Down! Hillary Clinton’s Closing Strong

[DonViejo]

Hillary Clinton’s Closing Argument Is Right—And Is Probably Enough

The media keep finding faults, and she’s not out of the woods, but she’s putting in the work to activate and turn out voters, and end this terrible election with a satisfying win.

MICHAEL TOMASKY

11.06.16 12:15 AM ET

Everybody’s kvetching at Hillary over her closing argument, because a) everybody kvetches at Hillary and b) everybody kvetches over closing arguments. They see five seconds of a clip on cable and frog-march their way to the most drastic conclusions. It’s too negative! It’s too positive! Not enough this! Too much that!

Oh, please. Give it a rest. She seems to know what she’s doing. She’s been ahead virtually the entire race, and most indications are she’s going to finish ahead and wake up Wednesday morning as the president-elect. If that happens, she will must have done something right.

That’s another thing that I find so trite and media herd-like. But she’s a bad candidate! But she generates no enthusiasm! You seen any of these crowds lately? They look pretty enthusiastic to me. So do Trump’s of course, but the last Washington Post poll found Clinton supporters to be more enthusiastic than Trump’s. Her lead there’s just a percentage point, 52-51, but her number has climbed several points in the past week, while Trump’s had declined.

And those early voting lines—one had to be kept open until 10 pm Friday night in a Latino neighborhood in Las Vegas—may be mostly about fear of Trump. But rest assured they’re with her, as they were back in February when Clinton beat Bernie Sanders in the Nevada caucus, dealing his campaign a devastating blow (you’ll recall that he hadn’t even prepared a concession speech that evening).

Clinton’s closing argument, to the extent these things are relevant, seems fine to me. There’s some positive in there, about her economic plans and the middle class and about how she will “protect America,” and of course there’s plenty of negative about Trump. She’s appeared with Alicia Machado, the ex-Miss Universe whom Clinton made famous in that first debate, and she’s run ads attacking Trump’s appalling treatment of women, and she’s made fun of him too. “I mean, really,” Clinton said incredulously, “can we just stop for a minute and reflect on the absurdity of Donald Trump finding fault with Miss Universe?” (If Clinton weighed the female equivalent of what Trump weighs, with his admittedly well-hidden corpulence, there is no chance she could have been taken seriously by the arbiters of such things as a presidential candidate, but that’s another column.)

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/06/hillary-clinton-s-closing-argument-is-right-and-is-probably-enough.html

[Norbert]

1. She was flanking Bill Clinton in two presidential campaigns

not so long ago. I think she knows what she is doing.

[Cha]

2. I wish the damn "media"clown show had nothing to do with this..

they're not only not doing their jobs.. they're letting an admitted sexual predator that close to the White House

SNL exposed that on their show last night.

TY for, Michael Tomasky, DY