There is not — as of yet — a smoking bomb in the thousands of hacked emails from Hillary Clinton's top advisers that WikiLeaks has been releasing last week and this week. (Also no evidence that Trump allies had a heads-up on what WikiLeaks was doing. But I digress.) The real problem for Clinton, writes Fix Boss Chris Cillizza, is that the emails detail a calculating politician, someone who's making decisions based on what's best for her political future. Of course, that's technically the definition of a politician: Appease constituencies you need to get elected and stay elected. But unfortunately for Clinton, a "politician" is the opposite of what voters in 2016 want: "People hate politicians," Cillizza writes. "The more you look and sound like one, the worse they think of you." Despite WikiLeaks, in a post-Trump-2005-tape-world, the electoral map favors Clinton. In The Fix's latest rankings, there are just a handful of tossup states left for Trump's already narrow path to victory. (Magic number to win the White House in 270.) One of those tossup states is Florida. A Trump loss there would probably hand Clinton the White House. So our partners at Mic.com took a deeper dive into where the battle will be fought, Miami-Dade, and found that it's complicated: A poll in May showed Clinton with two times as much support than Trump, but Miami's large Cuban-American population typically votes Republican. Except there are indications that many have reservations about voting for Trump. Hang in there. It's almost over. As I write this, the end of Election Day is 27 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes and 25 seconds — no wait, 11 seconds — from being over. A month is a long time in politics, but given this whole ordeal started 569 days ago (Ted Cruz was the first to announce candidacy on March 23, 2015), a month doesn't seem that bad, does it? The Fix's Bump puts it best: "It's as though we had been traveling the 93 million miles to the sun and are now only 3.5 million miles away." Just 3.5 million miles, people! Which means we're close enough for a countdown clock, one that shows what time polls close in every state. Check it out. And do what I do: Whenever you're feeling sad or mad, pull it up and immediately feel better by watching the seconds tick away until this election is behind us. 27 days, 8 hours, 42 minutes and 33 seconds ... Psst ... A PSA: Tell your friends in Illinois and Missouri who want to vote for the first time that Wednesday is the deadline to register. If you live in Idaho, New York, North Carolina and Oklahoma and want to vote for the first time there, you've got until Friday. (All state deadlines here.) (giphy.com) |