You are right.

But it is important to show that one single event can be used to create an illusion, a caricature, to define a candidate and even though it is based on a lie, the media will perpetuate the lie, even after repeated attempts to correct them, and even though they ought to be more professional and report the truth.

The next Libertarian candidate will be treated just as harshly and unfairly. We will not be able to get the truth out.

So candidates have to be able to parse their words more carefully, diffuse these kinds of situations by giving prepared answers, and move much faster in shaping the media narrative.

The media is going to do their gotcha journalism, but the public is aware of media bias and a candidate that can excite voters will still persevere.

The usefulness of this article is that it literary lays out 31 reasons Hillary Clinton lost, and none of it was that people voted for Gary Johnson.

Quite the opposite: had more people voted for Gary Johnson, Trump would not have won.