Feel free to ignore me for the next 8 days. Anxiety is irrationally high right now.
At this point the undecideds are decided. The enemy of victory is complacency. If I were the Clinton campaign, I don't know that I'd welcome another nothing email scandal, but I'll bet I'd have internal polling that says nobody gives a fuck about emails. I'm not tinfoil-hatted enough to propose that this was orchestrated to drive people to the polls but I'm cynical enough to suspect that the Clinton Camp had this as one of their wargaming contingencies. I mean, this posse been through fuckin' Whitewater. Been through Benghazi. The zombie energizer bunnies that chase this woman have yet to catch her.
I read on Twitter (a trusted news source in 2016--at least as much as where a huge minority of Americans get theirs) this morning that an FBI agent leaked this to Chaffetz and that Chaffetz threatened Comey with a contempt citation. Of course this info wasn't cited, but at least it's an explanation that doesn't involve Comey willfully inserting himself into the presidential campaign. Anyway, I think there's a 0% chance of Trump winning if he doesn't win 4 of 5 of FL, OH, PA, MI, WI, which seems unlikely, to put it mildly (despite the 2nd map from this link--and that's the best they could come up with). I shouldn't let this shit get under my skin so much, given its remoteness, but I will have a hard time living in a country run by that pigfucker. The fact that his chances are nonzero is enough to scare me.
I want that to be true, primarily because Chaffetz is my number 1 punchable face at the moment. I've been steadily discovering the warm cloak of cynicism lately. From my perspective, even if Trump were to win (a possibility I still consider remote), he's such an unprincipled hack that whatever platform he ran on would be immediately irrelevant. It would pretty much fall to whatever legislation Mike Pence could convince Trump not to publicly and spontaneously torpedo and I honestly feel that the Republican Party attempting to unify under that umbrella would be more disorganized than a Republican Party attempting to rally against Clinton. Not that it would be pretty. But a lot of the horror about a Trump presidency is directly related to illusions about his competence.