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I don't think she's that weak a candidate, that's just an easy thing to say.

The only difference between the DNC putting their thumbs on the scales for Clinton and other elections or the RNC is hacked emails gave an inside view of how sausage gets made that we normally don't see. EDIT: Bernie was an outsider, political parties are private entities that can run their business however they see fit.

I think most people would agree with the sentiment that there's too much money in politics. This is the first full chance for a whole cycle to go round with the new campaign finance laws, people at all levels seem to agree on one thing; that the rules and interpreting them aren't good for anyone. Maybe we'll see a whole raft of court cases after this to work out the precedents better, who knows.

And Gozer's probably right in that violations aren't being taken as seriously as they should, I mean that paper from the UK straight up tried to give foreign money to the Trump campaign in exchange for influence and they were even told how to do it to make it seem legal. Clinton's campaign at least could smell the trap in that case and didn't return their calls, but no doubt given the lack of certainty on what's allowed and what's not everyone's doing what they think will pass muster. That's not just Clinton, that was everyone except probably Bernie.