2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton SNUBS MoveOn.org [View all]hay rick
(7,611 posts)I suppose she looked at it as a choice between competing where she knew she was going to lose or taking heat for snubbing a preeminent liberal organization. That's not a particularly difficult choice for someone who appears to want to position herself in the general election as a moderate on domestic issues and a hawk in foreign policy. Also, staying out of the MoveOn forum allows her to parrot Sanders' position on some issues (TPP, for example) without getting pinned down to specifics that would inconvenience her in the future.
My concern is that she is earning the indifference of the activist base of the Democratic Party. If they are like me, they will vote for her but not work for her. She will get the same kind of "lesser evil" support that Charley Crist got in his race for governor last year. That doesn't mean she's doomed. Crist ran an incompetent campaign in a low turnout year and still came within 64,000 votes (1%) of victory.