Did you see in the leaked emails where one of her advisors asked if they could just run out the clock without facing the media (more than a month before the election)?
Yep. They thought the media could cover for them that long.
Again, the scariest thing is that they tried that in part (sending surrogates instead of the White Witch herself), and it ALMOST WORKED.
I guess we should have known the media can elect a president when it got Obama elected twice; he is a hollow, incompetent man who was installed via teleprompter.