title: email pandemonium and the perpetuation of rape culture
text: politics fbi director james comey afp file photo 
  hillary clintons top advisers blame fbi director james comey for the democrats bruising loss to presidentelect donald trump 
  navin nayak the head of the clinton campaigns opinion research division sent an email to senior staffers thursday outlining early signals as to why the candidate lost the november  presidential election politico reported on friday 
  we believe that we lost this election in the last week said nayaks email which was published by politico  comeys letter in the last  days of the election both helped depress our turnout and also drove away some of our critical support among collegeeducated white voters  particularly in the suburbs 
  we also think comeys nd letter which was intended to absolve sec clinton actually helped to bolster trumps turnout he continued 
  the letter also highlighted several other challenges the clinton team faced throughout the campaign including a desire for change after two terms by a democratic president and the reluctance of some americans to vote for a female candidate hillary clinton makes a concession speech after being defeated by donald trump in new york on november   photo by afp 
  despite those challenges nayak said clinton was on course to win until the last week when everything changed and the momentum began to shift in favor of trump 
  voters who decided in the last week broke for trump by a larger margin  these numbers were even more exaggerated in the key battleground states he said 
  the fbi director angered democrats late in october by announcing in a letter to congress that the agency had uncovered new emails connected to the clinton email investigation 
  just over a week later comey notified congress that clinton would not face charges over the newly discovered messages 
  nayak said comeys letters encouraged trump supporters and depressed the turnout for clinton on election day 
  there is no question that a week from election day sec clinton was poised for a historic win in the end less than k votes out of tens of millions cast on election day made the difference in this race he wrote 
  in the end nayak concluded late breaking developments in the race proved one hurdle too many for us to overcome 
  clinton had been leading trump throughout the campaign in most of the polls except for the last week of the election when she lost ground to trump