“By the time the results were certain, Clinton and her advisers felt that it was too late to make a speech; she wanted to consider carefully what she had to say, and went back and forth with her team about the stance to take toward [redacted]. When Schwerin and Rooney came to her suite at the Peninsula Hotel the next morning to go over the draft, Clinton was sitting in her bathrobe at the table. She had slept only briefly, but she was clear: She wanted to take a slightly more aggressive approach, focusing on the protection of democratic norms, and she wanted to emphasize the message to young girls, the passage that would become the heart of her speech. As the pair of writers left her room and walked down the hall, Rooney turned to Schwerin and said, “That’s a president.” Schwerin remembers: “Because here, in this incredibly difficult moment, she was thinking calmly and rationally about what the country needs to hear.” Schwerin said that until then he had held it together. “But I kind of lost it then.””

– Hillary Clinton Is Furious. And Resigned. And Funny. And Worried.

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amuseoffyre:

highwaytohell-a:

every time I remember about this spectacular moment, it just makes me happy (and also proud) that this joke was most probably written by an openly gay man (Chris Kelly) and performed by an open lesbian woman (Kate Mckinnon) in live tv. and that is just glorious.

This is how you take an SNL skit: with humour and acknowledgement that you’ve cocked up along the way. Not by being a pissbaby about it on twitter all night long

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agentscullycarter:

this makes me happy and sad at the same time

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martinsaurus:

sunshinetoday:

badassbettyrizzo:

BUT CAN WE TALK ABOUT HOW BILL CLINTON MOUTHES “THAT’S MY GIRL” CAN WE FUCKING TALK ABOUT THAT. 

Listen, I voted for her, but in my heart I don’t know that I’ve had many moments of truly liking or admiring her. But this moment? This poise? This complete self-control (in a situation where sexist men would expect her to be falling apart)? I have never been prouder or more admiring of someone. I agree, Bill. That’s our girl.

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agloriousfemalepresident:

Bill Clinton casts New York’s first electoral vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton

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leia-organas:

Occasionally I’ll be sitting somewhere and I’ll be listening to someone perhaps not saying the kindest things about me.  And I’ll look down at my hand and I’ll sort of pinch my skin to make sure it still has the requisite thickness I know Eleanor Roosevelt expects me to have.

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At this point it basically looks like it comes down to Virginia and Michigan, right? If she wins both of those, she wins. If she loses either one… well, then there’d need to be some very good news from somewhere unexpected.

And both Virginia and Michigan are looking pretty shaky at the moment.

Eesh.

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refinery29:

Do you find Hillary Clinton “unlikeable” because she seems stiff? Maybe you should take a minute to learn how she got that way

This Samantha Bee episode is really fantastic.

Gifs: Full Frontal with Samantha Bee

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mediamattersforamerica:

Hillary Clinton has faced years of sexism from the media. Here are 6 minutes of examples.

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so we’re at that point in the election coverage when the news operations are getting their exit poll data from the eastern states but can’t make their projections until the polls close. so they’re filling time talking about whatever, but if you use your split-screen thingy to watch all the news channels muted you can see something really interesting:

all the lady journalists look happy.

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I’m gonna try to take a break from election obsessing today. I’m going birdwatching and/our pokemoning; later I get to go to the opera. If I try just a little I can get to Monday without thinking about it hardly at all, and then there’s just one day more and we can all exhale.

But first there’s this: “the polls are rigged!” Which (like all the rest) is the obvious over-the-top twisting of reality to coddle his fragile narcissistic ego. Though there was always the fear that he could be right, in a sense. Because the polls ARE rigged. They’re weighted and sampled and have assumptions based on prior experience baked in; that’s the only reason they work.

But this election is different enough that those assumptions are on shaky ground. His supporters are different from the last election’s voters and the one before that. Maybe they are so motivated that they will turn out in huge numbers, overwhelming the pollsters’ algorithms.

There are signs, though, that the opposite is happening. In key battleground states, early voting numbers are up – way up – in two groups in particular: women and Latinos. After the dust settles the story of this election may turn out to be that the polls were rigged – but in his favor. And that by being SO awful, so blatantly racist and misogynist, he motivated those two groups to turn out in historic fashion, generating a wave that swept him away like the insubstantial flotsam he is.

Two more days.

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sashayed:

lol ok but seriously: what is it like to look at this year’s election and not have to see every time your own flawed, smart, accomplished, empathetic mother was ever underestimated, condescended to, denied credit or deliberately wronged

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sashayed:

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: AMERICA’S NERD MOM DOESN’T KNOW HOW TO GOOGLE TV SHOWTIMES🚨🚨🚨🚨

reneging on my decision not to @clavisa on these. because parks.

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Chimamanda Adichie: What Hillary’s Fans Love About Her – The Atlantic:

We do not see, often enough, the people who love Hillary Clinton, who support her because of her qualifications rather than because of her unqualified opponent, who empathize with her. Yet millions of Americans, women and men, love her intelligence, her industriousness, her grit; they feel loyal to her, they will vote with enthusiasm for her.

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The real Clinton email scandal is that a bullshit story has dominated the campaign:

Some time ago, Hillary Clinton and her advisers decided that the best course of action was to apologize for having used a personal email address to conduct government business while serving as secretary of state. Clinton herself was, clearly, not really all that remorseful about this, and it showed in her early efforts to address it. Eventually aides prevailed upon her to express a greater degree of regret, which they hoped would lay the issue to rest.

It did not. Instead, email-related talk has dogged Clinton throughout the election and it has influenced public perceptions of her in an overwhelmingly negative way. July polling showed 56 percent of Americans believed Clinton broke the law by relying on a personal email address with another 36 percent piling on to say the episode showed “bad judgments” albeit not criminality.

Because Clinton herself apologized for it and because it does not appear to be in any way important, Clinton allies, surrogates, and co-partisans have largely not familiarized themselves with the details of the matter, instead saying vaguely that it was an error of judgment and she apologized and America has bigger fish to fry.

This has had the effect of further inscribing and reinscribing the notion that Clinton did something wrong, meaning that every bit of micro-news that puts the scandal back on cable amounts to reminding people of something bad that Clinton did. In total, network newscasts have, remarkably, dedicated more airtime to coverage of Clinton’s emails than to all policy issues combined.

This is unfortunate because emailgate, like so many Clinton pseudo-scandals before it, is bullshit. The real scandal here is the way a story that was at best of modest significance came to dominate the US presidential election — overwhelming stories of much more importance, giving the American people a completely skewed impression of one of the two nominees, and creating space for the FBI to intervene in the election in favor of its apparently preferred candidate in a dangerous way.

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Because the polls started flipping again. He pulled ahead in Ohio again. 538 gives him between 26-28% chance of winning the election which is honestly too damn high. It needs to be no chance. He needs no chance.

Plus, I’ve seen and studied about enough insane shit happening on Election Day to know that it ain’t over ‘til it’s over. 

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thewightknight:

crookedforhillary:

ithelpstodream:

Representation matters.

Daughter: Mom, why are you crying?

Mom: I got to vote for a woman for President.

Daughter: You’re gonna make me cry.

Older women had to go through so much. I’m so happy for them this election.

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spinstermoderne:

This lip balm is amazeballs! Thanks, @longwinterfarm! #nastywomenvote

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