2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders Gives 6 HUGE REASONS To Pick Him Over Hillary [View all]Ino
(3,366 posts)If that's all that matters, then Trump will win.
All her money-grubbing didn't help her win in 2008, did it? She squandered it all away in a shock & awe display,* had to kick in millions of her own, and still ended up broke with Obama asking his own supporters to help pay her bills.
Don't even talk about her being ahead in polls until there have been a couple of debates. She's hiding in the shadows, being as noncommittal as possible, coasting on name recognition, amassing her fortune.
But hey... you just keep repeating that "money trumps everything" mantra. By the time Hillary crawls out of hiding clutching her resources, it will be too late to stop Sanders' momentum.
*http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/us/politics/22clinton.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
For instance, during the week before the Jan. 19 caucuses in Nevada, the Clinton campaign spent more than $25,000 for rooms at the Bellagio in Las Vegas; nearly $5,000 was spent at the Four Seasons in Las Vegas that week. Some staff members also stayed at Planet Hollywood nearby.
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The Senate race spending in 2006 was an omen for a lot of us inside the campaign, but Hillary assured us that her presidential bid would be the best run in history, said one major Clinton fund-raiser, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations within the campaign.
Yet the Clinton campaign at times found itself spending money on items that were not ultimately helpful. As part of their get-out-the-vote effort in Iowa, the campaign came up with a plan to have a local supermarket deliver sandwich platters to pre-caucus parties. It spent more than $95,384 on Jan. 1 at Hy-Vee Inc., a local grocery chain in West Des Moines, Iowa, in addition to buying loads of snow shovels to clear the walks for caucusgoers. Mrs. Clinton came in third in the Jan. 3 caucus. It did not snow.