The best he has gotten has been a tie, when he had a really good week and she had a really bad few weeks. The normal state of the race has been a commanding lead for Clinton.
- Russia's actual "state sponsored" capability would allow it to have hacked the server without being traced.
- Thus if Russia did it, the trail was left intentionally.
- Only if the "missing" emails contain a major smoking gun would it make sense for the HRC campaign to use this finger pointing as misdirection.
- Only if some PR aim was beneficial would HRC's campaign have turned the hack's alleged origin into a campaign rallying cry, rather than letting the officials currently in office handle it through official channels. This point is strengthened by HRC's status as a former sec-of-state.
Hypothesis 1: The HRC team is fully expecting an email to surface containing a smoking gun, and this is part of a preemptive misdirection strategy.
Hypothesis 2: This is part of an ongoing misdirection strategy with the full knowledge that no smoking gun will emerge from any of the hacked/leaked information, intended to keep everyone occupied with intrigue and speculation to avoid settling on any other focal point that might harm the campaign.
Hypothesis 3: Russia is doing a low-sophistication mischief campaign and has ineptly made itself a scapegoat and fomented outrage over this hacking which has become a rallying cry for HRC's campaign.
Clearly this article is a hit job.
But why?