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While the Clinton campaign can chug along while missing on many cylinders and still win, the Republican nominee must be a well-oiled machine masterful at playing mistake-free ball.

I completely agree. While there exists a chance of defeating Hillary in 2016, the GOP nominee is going to have to be essentially perfect in message delivery/management, commit no substantial gaffes and have no skeleton-in-the-closet scandals.

The "media," firmly in her corner, will try their utmost to manufacture scandalous material they can't uncover, so the GOPer must play two steps ahead of the darkside's game by anticipating everything and assuming nothing. The "media" and voters are flush with warm generosity and forgiveness of any shortcoming by the dems, but will show no such goodwill to her GOP opponent.