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Hillary Clinton's millennial surge has arrived - The Washington Post - Oct 26 - Her support rose from 49 percent to 59 percent, while Trump's went from 21 percent to 25 ...

If she had stuck with her

Ramona — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 15:32:56 +0000

In reply to Much of America has been

If she had stuck with her message regardless of who said what, it would be engrained in their brains by now. Bernie's message is essentially her message. Even some of Donald's proclamations are essentially hers--or should be. The Dems are the party of the people. She needs to speak to us, everything else aside.

Trump is old news. There isn't anything he can do that we wouldn't expect. To my mind it's a total waste of time and money at this stage to still be going after him. The Clinton camp should have been figuring out what the young voters and the undecideds would need to hear in order to get them to her side. That should have been their ultimate priority, with the rest--the attacks on Trump--taking a back seat to real issues. How does she convince those people she cares about their needs if she won't put them front and center?

During the convention emails

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 15:30:39 +0000

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During the convention emails got twice as much attention as all of her policies.

Eric Boehlert via Digby: "Not a single one of Clinton’s policy proposals accounted for even 1% of her convention-period coverage; collectively, her policy stands accounted for a mere 4% of it,” wrote Harvard professor Tom Patterson."

And that was the illuminated smackdown/speaking direct to the people phase of the elections.

No wonder the GOP has gone back to form - they know what the press wants to hear.

We were supposed to panic

rmrd0000 — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 14:45:01 +0000

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We were supposed to panic when Republican early voting numbers in Florida were high. We then learned that a significant chunk of Republicans were casting votes for Hillary. We are supposed to panic because black turnout is down. The fact that many Republican led states have changed early voting rules or are defying court orders by continuing to suppress black votes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/02/the-long-histo...

North Carolina is currently being sued for voter suppression

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/north-carolina-naacp-voter-suppressi...

Hillary is on track to get the usual numbers of black voters in a Presidential election. She benefits from a coalition of white college educated voters, Latinos/Hipanics, Asians, and blacks.

Hillary continues to lead in most swing states.

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/10/30/hillary-clinton-maintains-swing-s...

Much of America has been

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 13:52:57 +0000

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Much of America has been trained to not trust Hillary, through decades of messaging. If she says the same thing as Bernie, she's calculated, insincere - Bernie's transparent, honest. Many Americans think her having a private email server is more of an affront to the Constitution than cheating your way out of taxes, having your followers punch people at rallies, buddying up with the new undemocratic oligarchic Russia, or singling out dark-skinned people to abuse. If nearly half the population think the country's going to hell in a handbasket despite rising jobs, expanded healthcare, a massive global decrease in war, and other major improvements, it's hard to see that talking about cat gifs and good works is going to effectively counter the negative messaging. Trump got trounced over 3 debates, but that was what, 2-3 weeks ago, and now the public's forgetting and reverting to form - no shame again for backing a monster.

(As Nate Silver points out, 4/5ths of voters haven't changed their minds at all - so the main task remains getting like-minded voters to the polls, which Hillary seems to be excelling at through better organization. Whether the youth vote comes out due to fear or policy enchantment is an open question - there was quite a bit of Hillary fear that pushed them to Bernie in the first place. Perhaps we need *more* dragons.)

Yeah, us folks who like Hillary are pumped when we hear her talk about policy and nice progressive things. But the Bernie fans back a year ago weren't - they dismissed it as more posturing and focused on any iota of controversy in every single Hillary success. She got mass approval from 90% of the nation's unions - and they flipped that to be her just sucking up to the leadership and abandoning the rank-and-file. She had more support among blacks - and they managed to flip that to her abandoning whites, to somehow not being inclusive and diverse.

Compared to 8 years ago, or even maybe a year ago, Hillary has much more voiced internal dissension among her team now - a good thing - and much better message discipline and awareness. I'll trust her to do what she needs to do to carry it over the line. Go Cubbies, go Hillary.

There was a time during the

Ramona — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 12:33:57 +0000

In reply to Whatever works tactically

There was a time during the campaign to go after Trump, but that should have been over long ago. I can't believe their team hasn't figured out yet why they're not appealing to so many undecided voters. They're waiting to hear the message they can relate to. They want to hear that things will be better for them with the Dems. Instead, they're spending money on ineffective attack ads against Trump and wasting many minutes during each speech to go after him. Calling Howard Dean!

Whatever works tactically

Michael Maiello — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 11:36:08 +0000

In reply to Hillary, You Need To Stop Attacking Trump

Whatever works tactically (and I support your approach), I am absolutely sure that an election where the pivotal question is whether or not Donald Trump is a crazy person is a bad thing for America.

I sent a note about this very

Ramona — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 02:02:43 +0000

In reply to Ramona, I truly hope that

I sent a note about this very thing to Jennifer Granholm a couple of weeks ago and never heard back.