Hillary campaign touch: The Anti-Midas

[x-g.o.p.er]

Every message has turned to crap.

Every opportunity has been squandered.

Every dollar has been horribly mismanaged.

She was the Inevitable Candidate, then finished third in Iowa.

She "found her voice" in New Hampshire, but promptly lost it.

Super Tuesday was a pyrrhic victory, at best.

She then did her best "Alex Rodriguez in the playoffs" imitation since then.

She can't get traction, she can't decide if she's going to go negative. And when she does, it's the lamest, most petty attempt at negative campaigning I have seen in my lifetime. I'm no fan of negative campaigning, but if you're going to Willie Horton somebody, you need more than a 4th grade essay and a picture of your opponent dressed as a village elder.

Explain to me how she can change the dynamic of this race and win it, based on the current trends and the historical data of how she has run her campaign.

This will be Campaign 101 in how to NOT run a presidential campaign, and it will be as dissected as any American campaign in history.

[tekisui]

1. The only way she can even have a chance, at this point is a major

fall or scandal by Obama. Not some old picture or story from his past. But, something that he does, in the present, to cause it. He is a professional being advised by professionals, and it simply won't happen.

The more the voters of America get to know Obama, the more they like him. There is simply nothing Clinton can do to turn the sinking around. Nothing.

[HereSince1628]

2. She's diggin a hole for herself . Be fair. Quit picking on her and

hand her a bigger shovel!

Sorry I couldn't help meself. Really the devil made me do it.

[Lerkfish]

3. her campaign painted itself into a bad corner

the only thing it had going for it was the "inevitability" theme.
once that faltered, AND they went negative, but lamely negative, and then they started racebaiting, there was no where to go but down.

[madaboutharry]

4. Interestingly,

I believe this campaign will be written about and studied for decades to come.

[Common Sense Party]

5. Wasn't Bill Clinton regarded as the savviest, smartest, shrewdest

politician to come along in a half century?

What happened?

[Nederland]

8. Bill Clinton never had serious competition

Seriously. Bush Sr.? Bob Dole? The man's reputation is unearned.

[x-g.o.p.er]

9. No, it's not.

Bill Clinton is one of the best pure politicians in my lifetime.

[Common Sense Party]

10. So...what happened?

I know it's not HIM that's running. But he has been involved.

How could he allow her and her campaign to screw up so royally?

[x-g.o.p.er]

11. The Big Dog was inherently, naturally, likeable, and HRC

has to work at it. She came off as highbrowed with the "stay at home and make cookies and stand by my man" comment in 1992, the Republicans were able to characterize her as a bitch--which the press eagerly ran with, BTW, and the failed Health Care Task Force was just a debacle.

She's not a bad person, but she's not Bill, either, and that's her biggest problem of all.

[babylonsister]

12. They had no plans or money after Super Tuesday; Obama

is winning because of his ground game as well as who he is. He's an organizer w/o peer in this race which could be indicative of how he might run the country. Clinton, not so much.

[TheWraith]

6. Jonathon Alter agrees with you: called it one of the worst campaigns in recent history. nt

[polichick]

7. The Crash & Burn Campaign...

It's a terrible tragedy but you can't stop watching.