BloggeRhythms

Patrick Healy and Jonathan Martin report today, at nytimes.com, that: “While some prominent Biden admirers say they will now support her, others are expressing reluctance, and several are resisting – citing concerns about Mrs. Clinton’s electability, the threat of the investigation into her email practices as secretary of state, or a lack of enthusiasm for a veteran combatant in the country’s political wars.”

 

The important factor here is that while the Democrat presidential campaign has now heavily swung in Bill Clinton’s wife’s favor, there's still a long time to go until November 2016. Thus, considering Biden supporter’s reluctance to quickly change their allegiance to her it’s good to remember what political scientist, Larry Sabato, said yesterday, about the election still being a year away. What you can count on, he said, is things will change again, and again and again before election day. 

 

On another subject, much like Kevin McCarthy recent interview error, Fox News’s Chris Stirewalt‘s made a gaffe that Democrat readers are capitalizing on this morning, by titling his article: “Can Gowdy deliver the goods?”

 

Significant numbers of Liberal readers are up in arms because they claim Stirewalt’s words prove that Fox, and all of it’s staff, are Republican lackeys and always have been. Yet, what’s unusual is that so many Fox haters consistently read what’s published there. While competitive news outlets are shrinking practically out of existence.

 

In the same column, Stirewalt reports that: “For the first time since June, Donald Trump is not the frontrunner in Iowa, according to the latest Quinnipiac University poll. The survey puts Ben Carson 8 points ahead of Trump among likely Iowa Republican caucus goers. In the last Q poll in Iowa, which was taken six weeks ago, Carson trailed Trump by 6 points. At the end of June the two men were tied at 10 points apiece.”

 

What the new poll statistics seem to indicate is that Republican dearly desire a non-politician as their presidential candidate. But, at the same time, Trump’s grating, blustering approach without substance to back it up may be wearing thin with them. Therefore, it may be time for successful Republican governors to educate voters that their states are outside the Beltway too.

 

Which brings us to today’s update on Bill Clintons’ wife.

 

FoxNews.com reports that: “Hillary Clinton, responding to controversy over the contents of her recently released emails, revealed to the House hearing Thursday investigating the Benghazi attack that she did not actually have a computer in her office while secretary of state -- and generally did not use email to conduct government business.

 

"The puzzling comments before the Benghazi congressional committee came even as she lamented that diplomacy is still being conducted in a 19th-century way.”

 

At the same time, the left-leaning New York Times published an article illustrating a very clear, and documented time-line of her extensive email use, which refuted her testimony to the House committee. 

 

Here’s a link to the Times story: NYT-  How Emails Story Has Changed

 

Which leads to the ongoing question: Joe Biden, Mayor Bloomberg, Jerry Brown, and Starbuck’s chairman and CEO, Howard Schultz, are you reading this? 

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

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