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Go negative on Sanders
 
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Move to the left
 
#3
Argue on electability
 
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All of the above
 
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Beet
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« on: July 02, 2015, 08:38:47 AM »

With the latest poll out of Iowa, Bernie is starting to do very well. It's possible that he could pull out both Iowa and New Hampshire. At that point, a less-than-stellar performance by Hillary in South Carolina could doom her. Jesse Jackson also won South Carolina in 1988 but that didn't get him the nomination. And blacks won't be as solid for her as they were for Jackson or Obama. Is there any way her multi-million dollar campaign can be saved?
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Beet
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« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2015, 08:53:23 AM »

Move to the left, continue to stress the historic nature of having the first ever female president and argue on electability. She should definitely NOT go negative however, that will only make her look like a sore loser and will have a much more negative impact on her than on Sanders. It will also make the eventual nominee weaker as a result.

People always say you shouldn't go negative. No one likes the idea of "going negative" in the abstract. Just like no one likes raising taxes. But it works. The best moment of her 2008 campaign, besides pulling out New Hampshire, was arguably her Mark Penn-inspired 3 AM ad. Bernie doesn't have to go negative on her because there are already lots of people doing it (including his own supporters). But no one is going negative on Bernie, so she's going to have to do it, even though the blowback will be huge.
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« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2015, 12:40:16 PM »

Going negative is fine if the negative things you are saying are true. Sanders doesn't really have any negatives from a Democratic perspective though.

Everyone has negatives. Bernie has taken some pretty extreme positions on gun control, voting against the Brady Bill in 1993 and voting to support gun manufacturers' special immunity from lawsuits. He also voted against immigration reform in 2007. He's never represented a diverse constituency, and he'll be 75 years old in 2016. Then there's the fact that he's never led in a national poll.
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