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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: By 61% to 34% voters in the newest Quinnipiac poll say Hillary is not honest [View all]stevenleser
(32,886 posts)54. She lost because she ran out of money early because of bad strategy. The same bad strategy caused
her campaign to not think it needed an infrastructure in the caucus states past the third week or so.
The US is a massive media environment. A national campaign requires a huge amount of staff. There is no such thing as "enough money". Any money a national candidate gets has to be meticulously managed.
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By 61% to 34% voters in the newest Quinnipiac poll say Hillary is not honest [View all]
cali
Aug 2015
OP
In 2008, Obama said: "47 percent of the country against her. That's a hard place to start if you
leveymg
Aug 2015
#58
Many people would love it to be a "big problem", but it really isn't nor will it ever be.
George II
Aug 2015
#10
Where do you get that offensive "contempt" angle? Who do I have "contempt" for?
George II
Aug 2015
#52
Again, going back to the polls, Clinton is leading each of the republicans.....
George II
Aug 2015
#66
She's shown that she can successfully repel the attacks, and has been repelling them for........
George II
Aug 2015
#15
Then why do you consistently post anti-Hillary OPs and very few pro-Sanders OPs?
George II
Aug 2015
#16
that is simply false, and proportionately there are far fucking more Bernie bashing
cali
Aug 2015
#21
She wouldn't look so awful if the mirror Sanders is holding up to her candidacy weren't so clear.
Ed Suspicious
Aug 2015
#71
I expect better politics from her, moobu2. she has dragged out the email thing and it
roguevalley
Aug 2015
#91
Yet in the matchups, she still defeats the 'pugs, so it isnt the problem you make it out to be.
stevenleser
Aug 2015
#11
She hasn't even started campaigning. I'm not worried. Once there is a GOP nominee and folks get
stevenleser
Aug 2015
#20
She lost because she ran out of money early because of bad strategy. The same bad strategy caused
stevenleser
Aug 2015
#54
Use of strawmen is also foolish. And you have done that several times now. nt
stevenleser
Aug 2015
#56
You haven't stated any facts yet and have deliberately altered what I wrote several times to
stevenleser
Aug 2015
#68
Bad strategy was running despite her then high negatives (47%), now 13 points higher. Strategy is
leveymg
Aug 2015
#64
Bad strategy would be running despite the fact that 50% of the country will not vote for you, period
stevenleser
Aug 2015
#69
A couple months ago, I wrote it was really a 3-way tie between HRC, Jeb, and Sanders.
leveymg
Aug 2015
#70
It's Alec, not Alex, and you should apologize for your lack of accuracy here. (Just kidding)
Vattel
Aug 2015
#114
Q poll: Trump numbers soar past Sanders' numbers, Hillary continues to outpoll all
onehandle
Aug 2015
#26
In time that will fester eroding her support and continue her downward trend.
AtomicKitten
Aug 2015
#53
That is exactly that - if she's SO bad why is she so far ahead of Sanders and the other candidates?
George II
Aug 2015
#62
61% including Republicans sounds really good to me. Whatever the negative comment the
Thinkingabout
Aug 2015
#73
Your chief complaint is that it used 19 more republicans out of 1,563 total polled? lol.
morningfog
Aug 2015
#84
What were polls on ACA? Benghazi? Gun control? Iran nuke deal? Oh yeah, they were positive BEFORE
blm
Aug 2015
#81
Welcome to DU, in two regards. First, good you're here. Second, your observation is the trend here
George II
Aug 2015
#98
I didn't say it was dishonest, in fact I pointed out that I wasn't GOING to say it's dishonest.
George II
Aug 2015
#99
I'm not going to call you ironically passive aggressive, but I will say a rose is a rose.
Bluenorthwest
Aug 2015
#106