and started 60 points behind, plus if she didn't have the DNC and whole political Establishment behind her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As it is, they had to actually change the DNC rules on fund-raising and participate in some questionable funds swapping to even keep her coffers full.

The State Department under Hillary Clinton authorized arms sales to countries that had donated millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation, according to a new report.

State approved $165 billion worth of weapons sales to 20 foreign governments during Clinton's tenure, the International Business Times reports. Among the countries involved in the sales were Algeria, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

The Clinton Foundation received between $54 million and $141 million in donations from the foreign governments and defense contractors involved in those sales, the report says.

Certain defense contractors also paid her husband, former President Bill Clinton, for speaking engagements during that time.
http://thehill.com/regulation/international/243089-hillary-clinton-facing-criticism-over-international-weapons-deals

took her place.

The New York Times has reported intriguing trades by the Clinton Foundation. This isn’t the first brouhaha over the Foundation’s handling of speeches, politicking, country-hopping and tax return reporting omissions. They are causing some rekindled memories of the Whitewater era. The Times reports that Bill Clinton repeatedly turned down Czech model Petra Nemcova’s Happy Hearts Fund event. Then, with a little prompting, she directly offered the foundation $500,000 for appearing. The cash intrigue has been called ‘distasteful.’

On the other hand, the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation has reportedly raised $2 billion, and is lauded for good works around the world. It was Sue Veres Royal, the former executive director of Ms. Nemcova’s charity who said the Clintons needed a quid pro quo. Deborah Sontag wrote the story in the Times, noting that:

When charities select an honoree for their fund-raising events, they generally expect that the award recipient will help them raise money by attracting new donors. But the Happy Hearts Fund raised less money at the gala featuring Mr. Clinton than it did at its previous one. Further, it is extremely rare for honorees, or their foundations, to be paid from a gala’s proceeds, charity experts said — as it is for the proceeds to be diverted to a different cause.
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Curiously, one report on the Clinton Foundation’s trades suggests that the Happy Hearts Fund may be much more worried about the Times article than the Clinton Foundation. The former said that Ms. Veres Royal has violated a confidentiality agreement and threatened suit. Perhaps the Clinton Foundation simply has bigger issues, including the admission that it collected $26.4 million in previously unreported fees from foreign governments and foreign and U.S. corporations for speeches.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2015/06/01/does-clinton-foundations-pay-for-play-violate-irs-tax-law/#4a3dc83264bd

Who gave and gave and gave and lobbied?

Corning's in good company in padding the Clinton family bank account after lobbying the State Department and donating to the foundation. Qualcomm and salesforce.com did that, too. Irwin Jacobs, a founder of Qualcomm, and Marc Benioff, a founder of salesforce.com, also cut $25,000 checks to the now-defunct Ready for Hillary Super PAC. Hillary Clinton spoke to their companies on the same day, October 14, 2014. She collected more than half a million dollars from them that day, adding to the $225,500 salesforce.com had paid her to speak eight months earlier.

And Microsoft, the American Institute of Architects, AT&T, SAP America, Oraclem, and Telefonica all paid Bill Clinton six-figure sums to speak as Hillary laid the groundwork for her presidential campaign.

And that list, which includes Clinton Foundation donors, is hardly the end of it. There's a solid set of companies and associations that had nothing to do with the foundation but lobbied State while Clinton was there and then paid for her to speak to them. Xerox, the Biotechnology Industry Organization, and the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, in addition to Corning, all lobbied Clinton's department on trade matters and then invited her to earn an easy check.

By this point, most Clinton allies wish they had a button so they didn't have to go to the trouble of rolling their eyes at each new Clinton money story. The knee-jerk eye-roll response to the latest disclosure will be that there's nothing new to see here. But there's something very important to see that is different from the past stories. This time, it's about Hillary Clinton having her pockets lined by the very people who seek to influence her. Not in some metaphorical sense. She's literally being paid by them.

By this point, most Clinton allies wish they had a button so they didn't have to go to the trouble of rolling their eyes at each new Clinton money story. The knee-jerk eye-roll response to the latest disclosure will be that there's nothing new to see here. But there's something very important to see that is different from the past stories. This time, it's about Hillary Clinton having her pockets lined by the very people who seek to influence her. Not in some metaphorical sense. She's literally being paid by them.
http://www.vox.com/2015/5/16/8614881/Hillary-Clinton-took-money

sector and raked in the big bucks. She wouldn't waste her time running in rigorous, exhausting campaigns. It's silly to accuse her of this nonsense. It's really, really silly because it makes no logical sense.

My personal view is that his angry rhetoric doomed him as a Democratic candidate from the start. No doubt the Democratic Party is more liberal today than it was 8 years ago though.