2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThe Republican race serves as a useful distraction from how bad things are for Clinton
The Republican presidential race is taking up most of the oxygen in the media, but in case you need a reminder about what a weak candidate Hillary Clinton is, here is a quick summary of the doldrums plaguing the Empire. Despite the air of inevitability that continues to surround Clinton, her fundraising is weak, Democratic turnout and enthusiasm is low, her poll numbers are lousy, the investigation into her emails is smoldering and voters dont see her as honest or authentic. Yet in spite of it all, Clinton continues her limp toward the nomination.
In February, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) outraised Clinton by $13.4 million, but thats not the bad news for Clinton. According to OpenSecrets, 70 percent of the individual contributions to Sanderss campaign come from small donors. Only 19 percent of Clintons individual contributions come from small donors, which indicates a big enthusiasm gap among Democratic contributors. If Clinton doesnt knock Sanders out of the race soon, her money supply may run dry.
More: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/03/21/the-republican-race-serves-as-a-useful-distraction-from-how-bad-things-are-for-clinton/
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)Must be doing something right.
Or Bernie is doing terrible
revbones
(3,660 posts)That lying liars can win, for a while...
For the inevitable jurors, once the alerting Hillary supporter wakes from their fainting:
The Terms of Service clearly state "But that does not mean that DU members are required to always be completely supportive of Democrats. During the ups-and-downs of politics and policy-making, it is perfectly normal to have mixed feelings about the Democratic officials we worked hard to help elect."
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)beets. Funny how she needed a MEDIA BLACKOUT, her pal Trump, a huge war chest and outright election fraud to even "win" those deep red States.
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)nominee.
Funny how small Bernie's base really is.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)And we say the Queen will NOT be the nominee. Funny how small you think Bernie's base is. You're going to see soon how wrong you are.
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)Bernie's campaign offices to turn away AA event speakers and mismanage campaign funds.
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)That plus the H-shift in all of the exit polls is proof that there is cheating going on.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Clinton won because more people voted for her. Partly because your candidate blew off the entire South, where around 30% of delegates are.
Clinton did not force Bernie to blow off Texas and Florida and Georgia and Alabama etc etc.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Like soliciting for his wife at the polls IS cheating. The Clinton's don't even have to tell you the truth, and you still support her.
longship
(40,416 posts)GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)neither, by the way, are posts by random anonymous people on Reddit
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Clinton will be running out of $, and additionally have to raise money to lawyer up.
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)million and still has 30 million. Plus she gives money to other Dems and Dem state delegations.
He spent all that cash on March 15th and got shut out!
You all better keep the money rolling in or he will drop out before the convention.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)leftofcool
(19,460 posts)Trenzalore
(2,331 posts)Bernie is still over 3 times behind where she was in 2008 at this same point.
DanTex
(20,709 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)I'm shocked.
Tarc
(10,476 posts)A shame, some were so close to the Acceptance level around here.
The candidate in first place is not in "bad shape".
The candidate who needs to run the table in 30-ish primary states is.
Dem2
(8,168 posts)From 1985 through February of 1987, Ed worked in the Reagan White House in the Office of Political Affairs, where he served as Haley Barbours deputy as Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of the Office of Political Affairs. Since 2011, Ed has been an opinion writer for the Washington Post, where he writes about politics and the current state of affairs in Washington, D.C., from a Republican point of view."
This is embarrassing. Delete this garbage.
dsc
(52,160 posts)Ed Rogers is a contributor to the PostPartisan blog, a political consultant and a veteran of the White House and several national campaigns. He is the chairman of the lobbying and communications firm BGR Group, which he founded with former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour in 1991.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Why do the same people cite the same right wing sources to attack Hillary Clinton?
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)unsurprising.
The author of that piece is Ed Rogers, a very well-known Republican hack and lobbyist whose consulting partner is Haley Barbour.
P.S. Clinton isn't limping to the nomination, she's stomping over the opposition.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)It is not Team Clinton that is spending their money like the proverbial drunken sailor.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Hillary was never going to make the same mistakes she made in 2008. She planned for a long fight.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)he didn't get it.
Onlooker
(5,636 posts)leftofcool
(19,460 posts)artyteacher
(598 posts)And a 71% chance the democrats will win the election.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)Here's another opinion piece from him:
Huntsman- Bachmann in 2012!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/ed-rogers
IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)sufrommich
(22,871 posts)IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)If they can pull behind a candidate, even a scum like Trump, they own the White House.
Despite Hollywood's tendency to redo Classic movies (how many actors have now played Batman?) a large number of us are balking at reliving "the Clinton Years." Do we wait with baited breathe to see whether Bill will keep it in his pants this time? With an NSA *and* an FBI investigation ongoing BEFORE THE ELECTION, how quickly will the inevitable impeachment hearings begin?
Yeah, there are a lot of reasons for our enthusiasm gap, and that is BEFORE we talk about her policy issues.
The only thing their side has to fear is that Trump hasn't pledged his allegiance to obey the powers in charge. Once he does that, all resources can be turned to incenting their voters.
Oh, I'm sure all the SMART, SCARED voters will turn out for Hillary, which means landslide for Trump because he'll get the rest of them - you know, the ones who happily put Bush, Junior in office TWICE.
Worst case, we survived Bush. I expect we can survive Trump. Sigh.