Poll: Clinton hasn't answered a Press question in 20 days

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48. Sanders and Clinton have appropriately different priorities.

The big weakness Sanders has is that he has little to no establishment support and weak name recognition. To overcome these obstacles, the more attention he gets, the better. He needs to be taken as a serious candidate, he needs to make his issue stances known, he needs people to get who he is and to break through the media perception of him as a fringe candidate. This requires just as much careful framing and message discipline as for any other political campaign--actually, probably more.

Clinton does not have any of these weaknesses. She does not need better name recognition and she has an abundance of establishment support. She does not need to do media interviews to get people to pay attention to her policy views, or to connect with voters, or to change perceptions of her. She needs to accomplish two things: (1) not fail horribly in the primary and (2) win the 2016 general election. Doing lots of media interviews in May 2015 does nothing for either of those goals. I do not know if there is anything especially useful for her to be doing at the moment, but if there is, it is along the lines of what I said: preparatory work for what comes later.