Hillary Spox Blames Loss On 'The Breitbart Effect'

“One of the realities that I don’t think was truly appreciated by our campaign,” Fallon told a Yale University audience Tuesday, “was just how profound the Breitbart effect was in cultivating a standalone ecosystem in conservative media that very aggressively and successfully promoted certain stories and narratives we had a blind-spot for during the campaign.”

...“We had a lot of policy we were trying to communicate that got overshadowed by whatever Donald Trump tweeted,” sighed Fallon. “The email controversy was the most nagging problem we were presented. If I had to pick one, October 28th, when Jim Comey sent the letter, that was a pretty stark realization how far the winds were blowing in our faces the last ten days.”

...“The right has innovated a really good infrastructure that has not only insulated Donald Trump from criticism that should be driving his numbers down, but has brought the conversation to the right,” says Fallon.

“Politics coverage is increasingly mimicking sports coverage when you see these huge panels assessing debate performance on election night, sometimes even called ‘the game day sets,’” Fallon explained. “There was too much punditry on Twitter on Friday over who was going to take the blame for the health-care bill.”