2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The media is destroying Hillary and the Democratic Party acts like nothing is wrong. [View all]stopbush
(24,745 posts)Why would Team Hillary opt to play the Trump game when they are WINNING across the board? Hell, they have well-known Rs coming out and endorsing Hillary. They have huge leads in the demos that will decide this election, and that includes making significant inroads into traditional R strongholds. They are building their warchest for the big push in the fall.
All the whining reminds me of the "concern" expressed about Hillary's campaign after Sanders' big win in NH. We were told to expect a staff shake-up, a big course correction, that Hillary was going to HAVE to find a way to appeal to and tap into the demo that Sanders was winning. NV was going to be her Waterloo as the popular Sanders Express steamrolled her out of contention. Right.
What happened was that Robbie Mook stuck with the game plan and said as much. Rather than pivoting away from all the long and difficult work they had done building a ground game, they counted on that ground game to win. And guess what? They were right - the entire primary season was basically won when Hillary took NV by 5 points. The strategy worked then, and the strategy is working now.
Chill out. This isn't the Gore campaign which made the yuge mistake of not using Pres Clinton as a very visible surrogate. This is not the Kerry campaign that allowed the swiftboaters to gain traction. This is the winning Obama campaign on steroids. Were Hillary losing, there would be room for concern. But she's not losing. She's winning - big time.
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