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To: JohnM who wrote (301063)	5/31/2016 10:24:16 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540724

Mike Allen's newsletter. ------------------------------ NEW YORK MAG cover story, "Hillary Clinton's Candidacy Was Never Going to Be Easy. But Did It Have to Be This Hard?" by Rebecca Traister: "[T]here is something about the candidate that is getting lost in translation. The conviction that I was in the presence of a capable, charming politician who inspires tremendous excitement would fade and in fact clash dramatically with the impressions I'd get as soon as I left her circle: of a campaign imperiled, a message muddled, unfavorables scarily high. To be near her is to feel like the campaign is in steady hands; to be at any distance is to fear for the fate of the republic. ... "'There is no doubt that she has to walk a narrower path than some other politicians,' a frustrated Nick Merrill told me on the day of the Bill Clinton ['in charge of revitalizing the economy'] comments. Merrill, her press aide, was irritated by the willingness of the media to blow the remark into a fantasy scenario, at their refusal to believe the campaign's clarification that no, there was no 'official' role secretly being planned ... 'When she says something - not even off-script, but gives a stump speech and talks about her husband and uses fewer words or less-exact words than she did the week before - it's hard to put that toothpaste back in the tube. There's an assumption that there's some underlying secret.' "And this is the rub exactly: Everyone assumes Clinton is harboring an underlying secret. It's a paranoiac cycle - Clinton and her team think that everyone is after her, and their behavior creates further incentive for everyone to come after her." nym.ag