Despite the touting of public polling companies that they offer you what the campaign insiders once had only for themselves, several factors have spoiled, often deliberately, that claim. Now they behave almost like the leaked internal polls which are usually deliberate lies. No one wants to admit they will win by a small margin at best, or lose, of course. But when they need to rout their enemy's voters they will use discouragement by any means whatsoever.
It feels or appears, especially matching results, reportage, interpretation and clumping of polls that they have failed consistently on one side, namely pumping up Hillary and literally dismissing Sanders. These magic numbers extend to spinning the actual concrete numbers of the current delegate total, deliberate blindness to inescapable trends and saying a bunch of unmistakably true things as if there were no conclusions to be made damaging to the HRC campaign.
Meanwhile the hatefest GOP clown show keeps trying to make a contest of the most detestable and dangerous candidaters hated by their own party. At least the networks seem to enjoy the totally amoral game for ratings there while they tamper down the "bern" however possible.
But do we have their internals. No, we only have their facial and body language, tactical tells etc. to lead us to reading the true state of the campaign. Dumping the silliness or loyal rationalization of the obvious into something else, it seems the HRC campaign is more desperate than "annoyed" or "angry" about being weakened for November. It's too early to be making excuses for that, isn't it?
Also, despite the fact that the gloves have been off for months now, one has been retrieved from the mud and hurled like a gauntlet.
Being dishonest doesn't help hide the desperation.
Giving up Wisconsin. Making NY the pivotal battleground. Obama lost NY, but she cannot afford to lose here as a prelude to setting her actual weakness in concrete from here to June. So how loyal are super-delegates to the putative weaker candidate when it could easily be a GOP dark horse in the fall, the smoke and mirrors surrendered for months of cloaking real issues to a personality contest
the Dems have PRE-LOST with Hillary? No, it's not about electoral style delegate count numbers but really holding and extending Dem territory.
No you never will get a straight answer from the Clinton campaign unless she is dead sure of winning and then the temptation to exaggerate is unfortunately way too strong. Now how about Bernie? I am afraid the "blow-outs" are a hoped for thing with the nedia suppressing a rout atmosphere as long as possible. And they don't want to lie or make too much of the voter suppression set in place by the GOP for November but working just fine in the primaries with unexpected turnout. Have the feeling the GOP was all too happy to have Clinton waltz through without testing the minefield? Of course, the media makes little connection here either.
Unfortunately 2016 confirms the very worst impressions of 2008 even if you were to minus any accumulated negatives from her SOS experience and fund-raising among the gods of Mammon. Reflexive honesty of a sort, which while appreciated, will doom us all in November- if it doesn't succumb to the even deadlier weakness of the party establishment.
The voters will make the difference. Despite the denial of their rights in many insidious ways, they are the ultimate judges.
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