How Hillary supporters attract young people...

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...by just being themselves.

I've only posted parts of their posts else this post be too long.

https://www.reddit.com/r/hillaryclinton/comments/4dnvik/thank_you_subreddit/

A few months ago, I jumped onto the Bernie train. I had little excitement for Hillary, but Bernie Sanders seemed so exciting and new with great ideas. The same thing happened to me back in 2008. I went from Hillary to Obama. He was my big exciting my-first-time-to-vote revolutionary candidate. It helped that the S4P subreddit kept saying that they would not run negatives. They would keep it only pro-Bernie, not anti-anyone else.

So I come to this sub to see if it's reddit or just S4P and politics. And look! Civilized conversation. Someone comes in and asks questions, they aren't attacked as being a shill or an idiot. They get answers backed up with sources. This sub doesn't demonize Sanders just because he's the current opponent. I'm sorry if this isn't the right place to post this, I just wanted to thank you, subreddit, for being a decent, reasonable, and optimistic place. Thank you.

https://www.reddit.com/r/hillaryclinton/comments/4donei/your_average_everyday_sanders_supporter_here_now/

Never did I think I would even remotely like Clinton, she was just option #2 to protect against a Republican president. After reading through this subreddit (and other sources of course), however, I find myself identifying MORE strongly with Clinton than I ever have with Sanders. Her vast experience, political savvy, incredible policy knowledge, constant ambition, and actual concrete successes are FAR more inspiring than a far left senator that has had a mediocre career and little success, especially in the crucial aspect of bipartisanship, which he seems to completely disregard. Not to mention her voting record and platform is basically a mirror of Sanders, just far more realistic, makes the thought of her presidency even more appealing.

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1. Thanks for these posts!

At my last session of phone banking for Hillary, there was a delightful young male millennial who was very excited about Hillary and also very excited about being a first-time voter.

We chatted about how we both liked Bernie (at the time, I still did) but how we both found Clinton to be the more substantive of the two. Some of our co-phone bankers wondered how we could reach out more to "millennials" and our lone millennial admitted that feverish enthusiasm for Bernie was running very high among most of his friends and that it was indeed very difficult to get them to look at Hillary objectively. Anyway, we all worked very hard that night and were delighted when our work was rewarded with the Super Tuesday wins on March 15.

This past weekend, this young colleague was also present at our local Hillary campaign kick-off. When he saw me, he rushed over and threw his arms around me, saying "We did it!" so that all those around us chuckled and this staid great-grandmother was quite touched - inside and outside.

Hillary has done nothing this week to dim her luster in the eyes of her supporters. Bernie unfortunately has. One consequence is that friends of my enthusiastic and delightful millennial may now be taking a second and longer look at her - to his detriment.

Lost goodwill is very hard to regain.

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2. That's...

...a very sweet story, thank you.