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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]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)"moderate Republican women in the suburbs" to throw their support to HRC out of nothing but disgust for Trump's skeeviness.
The only thing that was ever going to be a valid sign that the ads were working would have been if a large bloc of normally GOP voters had switched to HRC and that the polls were showing HRC's lead increasing from where it was after Philly(at which point we were twelve point ahead at a time when it looked as though the HRC campaign was going to make a genuine effort to reach out to Sanders primary voters-an effort that campaign never chose to make at all, from what I can see).
As the lead not only did not increase when those ads and that emphasis in the stump speech started, but instead began a slow downward slide, we have clear evidence that the negative ads didn't work.