GRAB THEM BY THE PUSSY!

Don't. I just wanted to talk about the almost perfect timing of the Access Hollywood tapes release by the Clinton clan. Why "almost perfect"? If they had made this public sooner, let's say early in the campaign, people would probably have not taken it seriously enough and it would have faded away easily. But at that time, paranoia and fear were at their peak and the tapes fully fed into the public's confirmation bias that Trump was just a classless jerk who mistook women for objects.

Of course, any rational person could see that a simple conversation in a bus 11 years ago, as classless as it could have been, had no real impact on someone's ability to be the president. The attack was not about policies, about facts, or anything boring like that. It was a 100% an attack on his personality; it appealed 100% to your feelings. And that is why it was so effective. It grabbed you by the balls.

(Thunderous applause)

Thank you. Thank you very much.

Buuuut....here's the critical factor the Dems missed : the frantic flow of information around that period made so that 3 weeks was actually TOO long. We had had way too many scandals by that point, we got tired of this one in around 5 days. Plus, Trump the master manipulator, in one of his strongest moves of the campaign, completely deflected the ire of the braindead masses with a simple diversion : he changed the subject by bashing on well-respected cultural icon SNL. Less than a day after his tirade, everybody was saying he was a vain idiot for disliking Alex Baldwin and SNL, and it completely sucked the wind of the tape scandal. You can almost picture him sitting in his office going "Man, this is too easy."