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Hillary Clinton’s MetroCard-Swiping Game Is Weak

We’ve all been there, futilely swiping a MetroCard over and over while fellow straphangers silently (and sometimes not-so-silently) judge us. But, at least for most of us, TV cameras aren’t rolling while it happens. After a campaign stop in the Bronx Thursday, Hillary Clinton needed five swipes to successfully pass through the turnstile at the 161st Street station near Yankee Stadium, where she caught an uptown 4 train and rode it two stops to 170th Street.

Hillary Clinton’s MetroCard-Swiping Game Is Weak