2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: My head is spinning [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Last edited Thu Jan 5, 2017, 04:42 PM - Edit history (1)
Passion and enthusiasm matter...and those were both systematically tamped out by the people who ran the fall campaign.
We didn't see campaign ads talking about how good OUR candidate and our platform is.
We didn't see ads or a stump speech reminding voters(and they always HAVE to be reminded, we can't just assume they will remember) of our achievements, of how the Obama administration has made life better for the many(OR of what we were stopped from doing by the Right, and could still do if we took Congress), and in not running ads like that(the ads mainly called out Trump as a scumbag, and we knew early on that the voters didn't CARE that he was a scumbag) we created the impression that we were conceding the validity of the Trump narrative.
We didn't hold mass rallies with Hillary IN Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania(even when people were warning the campaign that we were in trouble in those states), or send in the huge numbers of volunteers in those places that that money should have bought plane tickets for.
It was just another defensive "we can't actually run FOR things!" campaign, and we always fall short running campaigns like that.
The kind of campaign I'm talking about could have given Hillary a big enough lead to withstand the Comey thing.