Study: Clinton ran least substantive ad campaign in recent history

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While I disagreed with the Clinton strategy, it did have a certain logic. Essentially, Clinton assumed (or hoped) for an electorate that, while it might disagree on policy, agreed on matters of qualifications for office, and basic human decency. For instance, you might think the tax rate should be 25% instead of 35%, but if the candidate favoring a 25% tax rate is talking about shooting people on Fifth Avenue, or belittling random people, you will vote for the 35% tax rate guy. It's a question of what's more important in society: policy, or the respect that binds society together? When you put it that way, it should be a no brainer. Government policy has swung back and forth, but without respect for one another social behavior has no foundation to begin with.

In hindsight, their theory that people would vote for a candidate they didn't like or trust- regardless of her issue positions- because her opponent said mean things about people was kinda misguided. That strategy might work in a year like 1996, but in 2016, most Americans were pissed off and even many Democrats saw Clinton as part of the problem.

I think she was lazy with an entitlement attitude, and I'm also pretty sure she blames her defeat on working-class Americans' ignorance or deplore-ability, instead of her campaign's own faults. I could be totally wrong, but that just strikes me as the kind of person Hillary is (vice Bill, who at least seems to understand where the Democrats' messaging went so wrong).

Her strategy was to court republicans and ignore the left-wing base, it's somewhat ironic since the original Clinton campaign strategy for 2016 was to drive base turnout. Instead, due to Trump, she shifted her strategy.

She also knowingly damaged the Democratic downballot with this plan:

https://newrepublic.com/minutes/137093/clinton-campaign-decision-made-may-doom-down-ballot-democrats

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While I disagreed with the Clinton strategy, it did have a certain logic. Essentially, Clinton assumed (or hoped) for an electorate that, while it might disagree on policy, agreed on matters of qualifications for office, and basic human decency. For instance, you might think the tax rate should be 25% instead of 35%, but if the candidate favoring a 25% tax rate is talking about shooting people on Fifth Avenue, or belittling random people, you will vote for the 35% tax rate guy. It's a question of what's more important in society: policy, or the respect that binds society together? When you put it that way, it should be a no brainer. Government policy has swung back and forth, but without respect for one another social behavior has no foundation to begin with.

In hindsight, their theory that people would vote for a candidate they didn't like or trust- regardless of her issue positions- because her opponent said mean things about people was kinda misguided. That strategy might work in a year like 1996, but in 2016, most Americans were pissed off and even many Democrats saw Clinton as part of the problem.

I think she was lazy with an entitlement attitude, and I'm also pretty sure she blames her defeat on working-class Americans' ignorance or deplore-ability, instead of her campaign's own faults. I could be totally wrong, but that just strikes me as the kind of person Hillary is (vice Bill, who at least seems to understand where the Democrats' messaging went so wrong).

Her strategy was to court republicans and ignore the left-wing base, it's somewhat ironic since the original Clinton campaign strategy for 2016 was to drive base turnout. Instead, due to Trump, she shifted her strategy.

She also knowingly damaged the Democratic downballot with this plan:

https://newrepublic.com/minutes/137093/clinton-campaign-decision-made-may-doom-down-ballot-democrats

So basically Trump created a Springtime for Hitler effect, same intention vs result dissonance.

And this is also why no other Republican would've won, even with Hillary's baggage.

You can look at this article for instance in how Clinton dramatically changed her campaign approach with regards to Michigan, as an example, due to Trump:

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/michigan-hillary-clinton-trump-232547