Her campaign strategy and ground game really are amazing, which speaks volumes about the candidate herself when you consider she is only nursing a 1.8 point lead against the worst major party nominee in history.

Not so great for the "most qualified presidential candidate ever" who is running against someone with an embarrassingly bad campaign and can't stay out of his own way for more than a week.

Her lead is substantial at this point. Up to almost 80% favorite.

Again, not impressed considering the historically weak competition.

She'd stand a good shot at losing against someone more competent like Kasich.

Trump obliterated the entire Republican Primary despite being an enormous underdog when they started.

Just because you don't like him does not mean he isn't a strong candidate politically. He's exactly what a huge portion of the country was looking for.

He's a historically weak candidate. This isn't about whether I like him or not. His favorability ratings are the worst for a major party nominee in history.

The GOP voters may have nominated who most wanted, but that doesn't mean he's a good candidate. By almost all metrics, he is a bad candidate.

I'm not going to try and spin Trump into being a good candidate because he represents who a plurality of GOP primary voters wanted, or try to spin Clinton into a good candidate because she's beating such a bad opponent.

These are both bad candidates, one is just less worse (way less worse) than the other. Let's not trick ourselves into thinking Trump is actually a strong candidate or that Clinton is actually a good candidate because she has an ~79% chance of beating a disaster.

"obliterated" is a pretty strong word to use.

The current polls aren't really indicative of the race. A 1.8 point lead in national polling currently really undersells her current advantage. No matter what the current polls say, a consistent 8 point lead doesn't evaporate over night.

the only thing kasich killed was a sandwich

That could be true, but FiveThirtyEight currently has her at +2.8 point lead with about a 3 point polling error. I have no doubt the media has done their best to try and spin this into a tighter race to boost ratings, but I also think that HRC has demonstrated to be a relatively weak candidate relative to expecations, given the finesse of her campaign and strength of her ground game, especially compared to Trump's.

She's weak in a couple of key areas - she's got very poor favorability ratings and a very poor trustworthy rating, along with a lot of high-profile negatives (most notably the FBI investigation, fair or not). The two best things she has going for her this election are 1) she's a Democrat and the Democrats currently have the advantage nationally and 2) she's up against arguably the worst major party nominee in history.