2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumI stopped by the Sanders Reddit page, and I think they've figured something out....
They've been posting about why Sanders lost last night, and there were mostly thoughtful pieces about campaign tactics. They've started to become aware that "Face-Banking" and tech aren't substitutes for shoe leather when it comes to canvassing, and spending time on "Bernie" light displays and flash mobs may be fun but don't have a large payoff. Also, that millennials aren't a reliable voting base.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Lucinda
(31,170 posts)Samantha
(9,314 posts)and scheduled the primaries accordingly.
Sam
brooklynite
(94,598 posts)...and DNC doesn't schedule them. but never let a good conspiracy theory go to waste.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)to get college kids registered, let alone vote. Many said they expected the DNC to do the registration for them- why? That is not how it normally works.
WhiteTara
(29,718 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Jitter65
(3,089 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)would clear my cookies enough to vote a second time.
I was wrong.
Yavin4
(35,442 posts)You don't win a party's nomination without building key alliances within the party's leadership structure. Very few prominent elected Democrats spoke up for him.
morningfog
(18,115 posts)in the southern states.
Part of how she did that was to get the support of African American party leadership. So, your point is taken, to that extent.
LuvLoogie
(7,011 posts)She got out of school. She has been building her Democratic party relationships for about as long.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)We've been saying that all along.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)"They've started to become aware that "Face-Banking" and tech aren't substitutes for shoe leather when it comes to canvassing, and spending time on "Bernie" light displays and flash mobs may be fun but don't have a large payoff."
Those are great ways to build enthusiasm. It is the campaigns responsibility to turn that into more.
MaggieD
(7,393 posts)I can promise you us "unenthusiastic" Hillary supporters knew better. I have always said, I don't mind a bit if Bernie wants to be president of the internet.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)what is a Bernie "light display?"
brooklynite
(94,598 posts)KoKo
(84,711 posts)Unless...it is on [n]their candidate's side, that is.
It's wonderful to see people engaged in the process and using whatever creative means they have to express their opinions in a way that contrasts with Donald Trump. Trump who wouldn't know "creativity" unless its a piece of property he can mow down to build another enterprise with "marble and not terrazo" and lease out his "Trump" name for profit--then declare a Bankruptcy that he cashes in on. A candidate who incites riots and denigrates his fellow citizens and non-citizens and uses borderline fascist tactics to whip up his crowds is far more dangerous than the wonderful, creative Bernie supporters who will not forget this campaign and carry the seeds of "The Positive Revolution" that neither Hillary nor "The Donald" would ever want to condone.
Instead the instinct is to mock young people and their creative expressions rather than understand and engage. But, perhaps they Do Understand...only too well....what a "Movement for Real Change" would mean to their business enterprises and their pockets.
brooklynite
(94,598 posts)...I'm observing that the goal of political campaigns is to turn out voters in sufficient number to win; and that some tactics do well and some don't.
DemocraticWing
(1,290 posts)hill2016
(1,772 posts)thanks!
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)artislife
(9,497 posts)if she is the nominee in November.
Get used to saying President Trump.
SusanCalvin
(6,592 posts)As an old-school Bernie supporter, I wish they'd figured it out sooner.