Looks to me like Hillary Clinton's campaign is shaping up to

[MineralMan]

19. Every presidential election is very interesting on many levels.

I've been following them since the 1960 election. Closely. It's fascinating stuff. It has to be. Getting more people to vote for you than the other candidate all across the country is an amazingly complex job. Few voters really bother to learn about actual policies. They're more interested in how they feel about the candidate, generally. Obama understands that very well indeed. I'm sure Hillary Clinton and her campaign advisers learned a lot from the 2008 election. We'll see how much they have learned in the upcoming months.

The kind of policy discussions we have here on DU have almost nothing to do with who will win in November. In many ways, they're irrelevant. Each voter has a picture of the candidate, a few words from the candidate and a lot of advertising. If all of that appeals to that voter, the candidate gets their vote. Party identification is also important. Many voters decide only on that basis, and don't bother with any of the rest of it.

A very tiny percentage of voters actually takes the time to learn and understand policy issues. In a few elections, they make a difference in the outcome, but not in most presidential elections. It's all too bad, but that's how it works.