Sunday's One-on-One Debate is Essential

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20. When Hillary was Secretary of State she had a level of sustained popularity that few others

have achieved. Her poll numbers were sky high for a few years.

The GOP swift boated her early, even going as far as to capitalize on a terrorist attack. Her problems in 2016 were not long-standing problems, they were new problems.

The email server was a non-event until the GOP, and their allies at the FBI and inspector generals' offices, decided to make it one. It was a nonsense story about nothing.

She did not take blue states for granted. She had larger ground games then Obama's in 2012 and spent more in advertising. And in all but one she made campaign stops. It is true that she didn't hold a rally in Wisconsin, but you usually don't when you are ahead by double digits. When the Comey intervention finally made Trump think he could win the first thing he did was cancel an appearance in Wisconsin. In any event, the evidence doesn't show that this was a determinative factor in who one Wisconsin, not that this one state even affected the outcome of the election.

And Hillary has pointed plenty of fingers at herself. She has repeatedly acknowledged making mistakes, many of which I personally don't think were even fair criticisms of her. But unless she says that she was a terrible candidate who had no right to run, and that every horrible thing ever said about her was true, we will never stop hearing that she doesn't take responsibility.