Clinton eller Apokalypsen?

"I’m the Last Thing Standing Between You and the Apocalypse."

Et direkte citat og klar udmelding fra Hillary Clinton op mod præsidentvalget om to uger. Humøret er højt i Clinton-lejren efter nogle særdeles gode uger. Men der er også nervøsitet at spore.

I en fantastisk baggrundartikel, hvor journalisten har haft masser af adgang til Hillary Clinton, står der om stemningen i Clintons hovedkvarter:

Whenever I visited Clinton’s campaign headquarters in Brooklyn, the youthful energy and confidence of the staff was leavened by a detectably uneasy undercurrent. Either they are helping elect the first female president, assuring her place in history, or they will be the people who lost to Donald Trump. “There is a dread that people have about what it would actually mean if he were to actually be elected,” John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign chairman, told me. As much as Obama’s team and supporters wanted to see the president re-elected in 2012, Podesta said, “they didn’t feel that the country was going to fall into the abyss if Mitt Romney was president of the United States.”

Clinton selv taler om en digital udvikling inden for valgkampe, som hun kan føle sig rendt over ende af. Og generelt åbner hun virkelig op for den personlige pose. Stærkt anbefalet læsning.

En afgørende grund til det gode humør er naturligvis "grab them by the pussy"-videoen. Den overraskede angiveligt Clinton-lejren lige så meget, som den overraskede Trumps folk. Her kan du læse, hvordan en topprofessionel kampagne griber sagerne an, når modparten spænder alle de ben for sig selv, han kan.