The new Washington-Post ABC News poll contains lots of bad news for Hillary Clinton. She’s lost more than 20 points in a hypothetical Democratic primary ballot since July and now finds herself in a statistical dead heat with Donald Trump — not a typo — in a potential general election matchup.

Those top-line numbers, though, aren’t the cause of Clinton’s problems; they’re the effect. The cause is buried deeper in the poll in a trio of questions about the private e-mail server Clinton used as secretary of state.
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