2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)Three major tactical mistakes by the HRC campaign [View all]
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Generally I think she ran a good campaign and I've been avoiding picking on her. But there are some things that could have been done that would have made a huge difference:
1) they way over-estimated how much Republican voters would overlook Trump's flaws-- I think they took for granted that he wouldn't get that many votes
2) they didn't control the media; they reacted too much to Trump, instead of trying to drive the agenda-- things like "America is still great", the alt-right speech, even "Stronger together" was a reaction to his divisiveness
3) they never crafted a SIMPLE economic message
Other mistakes:
4) not having large rallies until the very end
5) not having rallies in key swing states
6) disappearing after election night-- where's the fight for the aftermath, or even making sure the vote is counted properly?