CNN finally realizes Clinton’s email problem was kind of a big deal

When Hillary Clinton got beat in the 2016 election, members of the mainstream media who had for months declared her the inevitable winner blamed political pollsters for their confusion. Bad numbers, they said.. Now, CNN is using polling data to figure out what everyone outside of the media and political establishment knew all along.

What have they learned? Well, mostly that Clinton’s wanton disregard for government rules in handling official emails disgusted a whole bunch of Americans who might have otherwise given her campaign a second look.

Reporting on a “new study by a consortium of pollsters,” the outlet relayed: 

As you can see, “email” drowns out every other term mentioned about Clinton. It was, without question, the dominant narrative of the election for her — at least in the five months that this paper documents. And, according to the study, the mentions of email correlate directly to negative views of Clinton.

I’d agree that Clinton’s email server played a decisive role in deciding the election. But I wouldn’t agree with the idea that the media is responsible for it.

 

After all, it was Clinton who never seemed to grasp the seriousness of the issue and how it eroded the public’s already shaky confidence in her. Her inability to do those things meant she was never able to put the story behind her. And then the Comey announcement came, which undoubtedly surged the issue back to the top of many voters’ minds.

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