Let's dispel with the fiction that the Clinton campaign was centered on a positive economic message. It was not centered on a positive economic message.Here are the top 10 ads broadcast in swing states. 6 by Clinton, 4 by Trump.
Of the 6, 4 are about how Donald Trump is dangerous.
Let's dispel with the fiction that the Clinton campaign was centered on a positive economic message. It was not centered on a positive economic message.Of the
two that are positive/not about Donald, 1 is an incredibly generic "Oh gosh, Hilldawg loves kids!" biographical ad. The other is in such generalities that it barely counts as anything. "Hilldawg wants opportunity for families! And college! Did we mention kids?"
Let's dispel with the fiction that the Clinton campaign was centered on a positive economic message. It was not centered on a positive economic message.
Let's dispel with the fiction that the Clinton campaign knew what it was doing. It had no idea what it was doing.The fun thing about all of this is that most of what's proceeded has been an argument entirely orthogonal to what happened in the election. Adam T has sure had his jimmies rustled by white working class voters that voted
against their own self interest *sips latte*, but the truth is that FAR more voters, white, black, young, mostly poor didn't come out for Clinton (unlike 2012) than WWCs voted for Trump, because Clinton was fundamentally unable to make a winning coalition outside of the affluent coastal suburbs care about her campaign. The story of the election in the crucial states isn't a story of one single thing going wrong; Adam's right about that. It's a story of the Clinton campaign having a thousand paths to victory, and missing Every. Single. One.
The Clinton campaign didn't inspire voters. It didn't persuade voters that mattered. In all of the states they lost that counted, their field operation either didn't exist (WI, MI), was mis-targeting voters (PA), or was an absolute shambles. Her biography of centrist elitism was the wrong message for the times. No one read her policy papers on her website, as is good and proper, since jfc who does that? But the Clinton campaign seemed to think that that was enough, and focused on telling everyone that Donny was a bad,
bad man. Which everyone knew already.
Let's dispel with the fiction that the Clinton campaign knew what it was doing. It had no idea what it was doing.
