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In reply to the discussion: It would be nice if the centrists in this party did some introspection, too. [View all]thesquanderer
(11,972 posts)Good point. This kind of "don't vote for him" didn't really give people a reason to vote for her. To that extent, even if the ad "works," the end result could as easily be that the voter stays home.
Maybe she was thinking about how people said Bush won in 2000 because people saw him as a guy they'd like to have a beer with, and she wanted to make sure people didn't want to have a beer with Trump (and I'm not sure the ads even worked for that)... but similarly, that doesn't mean they want to have a beer with her either.
In the end, I think lots of people don't care much about character, they care more about what's happening in their lives. Moreover, rightly or wrongly, for those who did care about character, many people saw the character of both of these candidates as flawed, so this is not the game she should have chosen to play. "He's worse" is not a great winning strategy.