Donald Trump is running a TV campaign for a right wing who's safely in the bubble and is reaching them no matter where he campaigns. To Rachel Maddow’s question, “why Louisiana?” Kellyanne Conway told the truth — “it gets national attention on TV.” And if that werent enough, he is 99% of the political coverage everywhere we look. Conversely, Clinton has almost disappeared from the entire frame unless the media want to discuss that dead horse email issue, or how odd it is that she met "all those foreigners" during her job as Secretary of State - not due to her role, mind you, but because *Clinton Foundation*.
Meanwhile, I’m getting random HRC posts on facebook like, "Win the chance to meet Hillary and Cher!" Are they f$&king kidding me?!?!!! I believe the women-over-60 vote is safely in our hands already… but it seems she is in as isolated a bubble as the right is. This is not 1974 and Helen Reddy isn’t popular anymore and we don’t want to see her in one more monochrome pajama set like she couldn’t be bothered with looking sharp and executive-ish, droning in some strained, affected man-voice nonstop about — you guessed it — the guy we're hearing 99% about already. From my vantage point, her sitting back thinking all these things Trump’s saying/doing will translate into votes FOR her is a political disaster of epic proportion. 19% undecided? These people aren’t taking sides; they seem to be largely sitting this one out. Where is she to tell the American people why she is worth voting for? The lack of action, lack of Clinton-focused content, and/or the lack of coverage, seems to be putting her in an increasingly bad position from which to win this election.
I am afraid the fix is in. Between Trump’s name recognition, the nonstop free publicity, the inundation, the desensitization from the next batshit thing he says or person he invites into his circle - in short, the mere spectacle — juxtaposed with her “let him fall on his own sword, I’m going to email this one in” attitude — will make this a very competitive race in November.
