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The Good Fight, a legal drama so mercurial you sometime want to shout objection! as it airs, returned to SBS last week, parachuting the shows protagonist, progressive Chicago lawyer Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski), into an alternate reality where the historic burden that had motivated and menaced her was absent: in 2020, Hillary Clinton is President of the United States, not Donald Trump. Yes! the legal eagle shouts in delight, literally popping a champagne bottle.

Are you microdosing again? Lockhart's assistant asks, referring to her predilection for psychedelic relief when the idea of Trump having actually won the election is raised; for good measure, Merrick Garland and Elizabeth Warren are on the Supreme Court. Like all good what-if scenarios, the fork-in-the-road moment has some unexpected blowback, with Trumps defeat meaning a different real-life figure had not been exposed as a monstrous criminal. Instead, to her horror, Diane is representing this person.

Hillary Clinton in a scene from Nanette Burstein's illuminating documentary Hillary.Credit:Courtesy of SBS

As 2020 moves towards the next US presidential election at the beginning of November, images and echoes of Hillary Clinton are all over our television screens. If her loss to Trump in 2016 is a pivotal moment in the 21st century, a before and after schism, then were at the point where the medium sees her as a figure of fascination, and one that is now creatively pliable. Clinton is a documentary subject, a fictional character, a symbolic figure, and a contrary framing device to Trumps presidency.

Theres long been a Clinton undercurrent to Hollywoods scripted dramas. The former first ladys time as secretary of state during Barack Obamas administration was obviously the inspiration for Madam Secretary, which Clinton eventually had a cameo on as herself alongside Tea Leonis fictional diplomat Elizabeth McCord. Beyond that, the wild insider plots and personal dynamics of both House of Cards and Scandal wouldnt have been such juicy viewing without Hillary and Bill Clintons marriage, and the headlines that pursued them, as a kind of cultural kindling. Its Whitewater paranoia as plot twists.

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Figure of fascination: Hillary Clinton is all over our TV screens again - Sydney Morning Herald

Over the past few months, many are dependent on Zoom for office meetings or online classes or interviews. One of the constraints that most may have faced while using the video conferencing service for free is the restricted time limit. The app lets a free user continue communication for a certain period of time before hitting them with reminders that their time slots are going to end. Turns out, its not just us but even former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton deals with Zooms time limit issue.

Clinton appeared on MSNBC and it was in the middle of a TV interview that she was hit with a Your meeting will end in 10 minutes notification by Zoom. Soon an image of the incident went viral online as many netizens found the moment to be too relatable. Eventually, the politician also reacted to the whole ordeal and that too in a manner which has now left people giggling.

Replying to a tweet with the Zoom notification image shared by a journalist, Clinton wrote, Ok, ok, Ill upgrade.

Her reply soon piqued peoples attention and they started sharing various comments.

You were great, as usual! I love you, wrote a fan. LOL! I can hear you laughing now, commented another. There were also some who pointed that how she is just like all of us.

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Hillary Clinton hits Zooms time limit during TV interview, pic goes viral. She reacts - Hindustan Times

Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris are two of the most powerful women in the United States. In a one-on-one conversation, they honored the woman who made their power, in many ways, at all possible: Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Clinton, who was once projected to be the first woman president of the United States, and Harris, who is the next great hope for a woman in (or at least near) the White House, met at the height of debate season to memorialize Ginsburg on Clinton's new podcast, You and Me Both, produced by iHeartMedia, which started streaming in late September. In a Glamour exclusive clip from an episode that will drop on Thursday, October 1, Harris takes a break from the campaign trail to sit with Clinton and reminisce about Ginsburg, the powerhouse juror and pop culture icon, who died on September 18 at 87 and was buried on September 29.

I looked at that casket, Hillary, and she was suchin sizesmall, Harris tells Clinton, with emotion in her voice. And I looked at that casket, and there was, without any question, an inverse relationship between her size and her stature.

Oh, that's great, Clinton says. That's a great way to describe it.

The two womenHarris is a senator and Clinton is a former senator and secretary of statesound, in a nice way, like they're raising a beer to the late Ginsburg. It's moving to hear the women talk so intimately in a moment of profound transitionHarris storming toward the White House, Clinton accepting that her work may never take her back that way, and Ginsburg having become the first woman to ever lie in state at the Capitol.

She did what you and I know is required of lawyers who are fighting for civil rights, Harris says, mournfully, as Clinton mm-hmms.

She built up a path for so many women, and she did it brick by brick, case by case, Harris continues. What a life well-lived. (As a lawyer and founder of the ACLU Womens Rights Project, Ginsburg used legal strategy to essentially build legal rights for women out of argumentsshe argued and won five cases before the Supreme Court long before she earned a seat there herself.)

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She saw wrongs that she wanted to help rectify, and she was in pursuit of justice and equality, plain and simple, under the constitution, Clinton says. When I think of her, I think of her as a mighty warrior even though she was, as you say, a petite woman. But a woman with enormous energy and conviction.

Part team eulogy, part kibitzing, part laugh session about the pains and stresses of the campaign trailthe conversation is one you just wish Ginsburg could have been part of as well.

You can listen to You and Me Both, which will feature Clinton in conversation with guests including Stacey Abrams, John Legend, Samin Nosrat, and Tan France, on Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, and all the other usual suspects in podcasting. No word yet on whether Tan and Hillary try on each other's pantsuits.

Jenny Singer is a staff writer for Glamour. You can follow her on Twitter.

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President Donald Trump has been accustomed to going into an election trailing his Democratic rival in polls and still coming out victorious. But this time around, the margin is even greater and the polls may be more accurate.

Four years ago, Americans felt confident Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton would win the election. Going into the final month of the 2016 election, Trump trailed Clinton by about three percentage points. But when election night came, Trump took the White House by way of the Electoral College.

Now the incumbent in the White House trails Democratic candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden by about seven-percentage points, according to a RealClearPolitics average.

At least publicly, Trump doesn't put a lot of stock in polls and is known to dismiss those that show him as the losing candidate. While his accusations that polls are "fake" are unproven, the president has a point that the surveys aren't always an indicator of the outcome of an election, especially when considering the Electoral College.

Months-long polling giving Clinton a victory in 2016 were partially to blame for why Trump's election night win came as such a surprise, and experts have yet to issue the final verdict on why the predictions were wrong. But a 2017 report from the American Association for Public Opinion Research identified three main reasons: people changed their vote preference close to the election; college graduates were overrepresented in polls; and Trump voters didn't reveal their candidate.

While polls were wrong that Clinton would win the election, on a national level, the report noted that they were fairly accurate. Polls that put Clinton ahead of Trump by about three percentage points were "basically correct," because she won the popular vote by about two percentage points more than Trump.

It's possible the same could be true for 2020, and Biden's support on the national stage won't be reflective of how many Electoral College votes each candidate receives. However, if he can maintain the lead he has now, John Geer, a professor of political science at Vanderbilt University, told Newsweek it's a "real problem" for the Electoral College.

Polls are also assuming the electorate will look like it did in 2016, Geer said, when voter turnout in the Black communitya loyal voting bloc for the Democratic Partydeclined during a presidential election for the first time in 20 years. If Black voters turn out how they did in 2012a record-high yearGeer said Biden could have an even bigger lead.

"I wouldn't want to bet a lot of money on either of them because there are so many unknowns. But the trauma, so to speak, that the Democrats faced with the surprising loss in 2016 continues to shape 2020 and there's a lot of concern about getting people to vote because a lot of people didn't in 2016," Geer said.

Part of the reason state polls were wrong in 2016 is that pollsters didn't give education the proper weight to adjust for an accurate sample of well-educated and less-educated respondents. Voters with at least a college degree went for Clinton by more than 20 percentage points while Trump took the non-college grad vote by seven percentage points, according to Pew Research. However, when broken out by race, Clinton's lead among white college graduates shrunk by four percentage points, while Trump's advantage with white non-college graduates increased by 29 percentage points.

In Midwestern states where there are large working-class populations, this could account for why state-level polls still showed Clinton with a lead and why Trump's victory was such a surprise. However, The New York Times noted that some state-level polls in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania that gave proper weight to education still put Clinton on top.

Biden leads Trump in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania by about five percentage points. Around the same time in 2016, Clinton also had an almost five-percentage point lead in Wisconsin and a three percentage point lead in Pennsylvania, although she'd widen the margin between her and Trump in Pennsylvania to more than nine percentage points in the middle of the month.

A month later, Trump won Wisconsin and Pennsylvania by a slim margin of less than one percentage point. He also won Florida by 1.2 percentage points, just about the same margin polls gave Clinton to win at the beginning of October. Winning those three states, gave Trump 59 of the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win.

A slim victory is still a victory when it comes to states that award all their electoral college votes to one candidate, as is the case in every state except Maine and Nebraska. But it also means that had there been a slight change in the wind, it could have gone the other waymaking it a possibility that Trump might not win those states again.

After the 2016 election, pollsters took a "very hard look" at how they conducted their surveys, Geer said, and made adjustments for where they went wrong. Polls in the 2018 midterm election proved to be a relatively good predictor of the election and nonpartisan polls taken in the three weeks prior to people casting ballots were more accurate than the average poll since 1998, according to CNN.

"Like generals, we always fight the last war," Geer said. "We're focusing on state polls. But if Biden wins this election by eight points nationally, he's going to win Electoral College."

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With One Month to the Election, Trump's Faring Worse Than He Was in 2016 Against Clinton - Newsweek

Hillary Clinton's interview on MSNBC was interrupted by a Zoom notification.

Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was in the middle of an MSNBC interview being conducted over Zoom when the video conferencing service chimed in to remind her that her meeting would end in 10 minutes.

"You meeting will end in 10 min. Contact your IT team to upgrade to Zoom Pro for unlimited meeting minutes," Zoom told Ms Clinton through a pop-up notification. It seems like neither the TV channel nor the former presidential candidate had upgraded their Zoom accounts, preferring to use the free version where meetings can only go on for 40 minutes.

A picture of Zoom's pop-up notification blocking Hillary Clinton's face on national television quickly went viral on social media - earning an amused response from the politician herself.

"Ok, ok, I'll upgrade," Hillary Clinton promised in a hilarious tweet on Wednesday, which has been 'liked' by nearly 50,000 people on the microblogging platform.

At a time when the coronavirus pandemic has forced millions of people across the world to work from home and attend work meetings remotely - mostly through platforms like Zoom - many found Ms Clinton's predicament quite relatable.

"For some reason I was comforted to know she uses the free version of Zoom like the rest of us," one Twitter user wrote.

The picture of Zoom's time notification popping up on TV was described by several people as the defining image of the year 2020.

Video conferencing platforms like Zoom saw a huge surge in popularity earlier this year as the pandemic forced people inside and meetings moved online.

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Hillary Clinton's Hilarious Tweet After Reaching Zoom's Time Limit On TV - NDTV