How Hillary Could Get Her Mojo Back
Her surrogates and supporteers must stop projecting the idea that she is the inevitable candidate. As a Sanders supporter I laughed my ass off all through the autumn months as the Clinton supporters on this board kept posting irrelevant poll after irrelevant poll that proved nothing -- and most importantly, did not give any reason to support Hillary. Those posts were clearly intended to discourage Bernie supporters, rather than to persuade anybody of anything. Bad election strategy -- vote for me because I am going to win anyway.
Her campaign must stop its scattershot criticism of Sanders. It should stop talking about him at all.
Instead she should say why she wants to be President.
She should lay out the Hillary Vision for the Future -- and this vision has to be positive, not a vision of not being as bad as the competition.
Instead of arguing about the merits of $12 vs. $15 -- she should say how important it is to raise the minimum wage, and to imply that it needs to keep going up as the years go by. Instead of saying why 12 is better than 15, she should be saying that more is better.
Instead of the utterly insane pitch on health care that Single Payer or anything else like it is Impossible -- she should say that Obamacare was a great first step and that we need to continue to provide health care to more people. Again, a wonkish debate about how to finance improvements will not help her. She needs to make people believe that she is going to take the wisest course forward, and she needs to say she will fight the Republicans to make needed improvements.
Instead of defending herself on her Wall Street connection, she should go right at the banks and say that we cannot allow Too Big To Fail to crash the economy again. The bulk of voters aren't going to care about the names of statutes or the financial manipulation details. All they want is to feel like the President is not in the tank for those bankers.
Instead of the embarrassingly weak argument that I see her fans post on this board that She Is Ready From Day One, she should be saying that she is going to lead the country to a better future, and proclaim her willingness to fight for that future.
She would not have to shift any of her substantive positions to take this approach. And, with her money and institutional support, she could probably right her ship and wind up the nominee if she would just give Democrats a reason to be FOR her, rather just against Bernie and against the Boogey Man Republicans.
Can't you Hillary supporters see how weak her campaign is?
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Everyone already knows Bernie is likely to win a couple of states like NH.
