2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I don't fucking care how much they paid her. [View all]saltpoint
(50,986 posts)The Oregon seditionist hid under a blue tarp. Hillary's tarp is so faint a blue it's bland.
She's sloganeering her way through Iowa and New Hampshire. Her interviews with the media are dull, flat-spirited, bland. She is not a natural campaigner.
Politicians come in many flavors, but often the successful ones share a knack for communicating with their audience. Birch Bayh. Not his son. But Birch Bayh. Bella Abzug. Just two examples.
Other politicians have the solid instinct but are not showy or extraverted and so they speak substance to audiences without visible folksiness. Shirley Chisholm. Lowell Weicker (one of a very very few Republicans I actually like).
Others are more strident yet quite substantive, too. Paul Wellstone. Bernie Sanders.
The Clinton campaign is not self-reflective. If it were, it would boast a campaign circle of advisors who could approach the candidate and tell her she is losing ground, why she is losing it, and what might be done to reverse the damage.
The meeting should begin with one such advisor telling the candidate, "You have more money than God, you've been setting up a field operation in Iowa for essentially three years, you have more name recognition than any other woman in the world, and some guy nobody ever heard of a few months ago almost kicked your butt in Iowa. Are you ready to entertain significant adjustments, Secretary Clinton?"