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2000 US Senate for New York
 
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« on: December 14, 2019, 03:31:02 PM »

Gonna go out on a limb and argue its actually her 2008 primary campaign. Bernie Sanders was never expected to do well whereas Obama was a much more formidable challenger and she came back from the dead on multiple occasions to win states til the very end in June.
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« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2019, 05:20:52 PM »

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« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2019, 07:24:50 PM »

2000. She outworked her rivals in what was initially seen as a competitive campaign (not like 2006 where her victory was assured), for which she barnstormed & lingered at the rope lines until there were no more hands to shake or votes to earn.
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« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2019, 10:06:56 PM »

Definitely 2000 where she handily won a pretty tough election.

Her 08 primary campaign was horrible and gives her 16 campaign a run for its money. Obama was a great candidate but if she'd run a half decent campaign she'd have won and he'd have had to stay in the Senate and wait for 2016.

Her big theme in 08 was "experience" despite the fact that she didn't have much and that it was a "throw the bumbs out" election where that wasn't what people were looking for. She constantly brought up the potentiality of being the first female President, which is nice, but not a reason to vote for her in and of itself. Obama by contrast almost never played the "first black president" card during that campaign which was much smarter. People are going to talk about that no matter what in either case, talking about it yourself just looks cheap and like you want people to vote for you just because of gender/race.
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« Reply #4 on: December 15, 2019, 06:51:14 AM »

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« Reply #5 on: December 15, 2019, 10:40:19 AM »

A strong vote for 2000. Fair or not, she was unpopular as first lady with the failed health care initiative, and she was also a carpetbagger (though that is less of a big deal in NY). But she learned her lesson and had so called listening tours around the state to win people over.

2008 was horrible. She wanted a coronation in an election where some party leaders stayed neutral while secretly preferring Obama because they thought she would lose in the general. Her husband's attempt to win over Kennedy was clumsy and just wrong, and Kennedy's resulting endorsement of Obama made it OK to not endorse her.

In 2016, she learned the wrong lesson from 2008 and decided the way to win was to not have any competition. This led to a close win over a then-fringe candidate and a loss to the likes of Trump. The general election campaign had no theme other than "I'm a woman" and "Trump is a buffoon". She also seems to have learned the wrong lesson from 2016 as every action since then is excuses for her loss attributed to others instead of herself.

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« Reply #6 on: December 19, 2019, 11:01:38 AM »

2000.

That year, she aggressively campaigned across NY state which allowed her to overcome her carpetbagging concerns and turn what was originally supposed to be a close/competitive Senate race into a blowout win.

Had she replicated that strategy in 2016, she might very well be President right now.
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« Reply #7 on: December 19, 2019, 02:25:08 PM »

2000.
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« Reply #8 on: December 28, 2019, 11:01:33 AM »

2000 was her best campaign because it was the only time in public life she acted as if she were required to prove herself, and not as if she was entitled to the prize and it would be an injustice on its face if she didn't get it.

Had Hillary not gone back to her pathetic sense of entitlement and victimstance, she would likely have won in 2008.
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