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Related: About this forumHillary Clinton taps Arkansas network in bid to finish Sanders
Hillary Clinton taps Arkansas network in bid to finish Sanders
Shes courting Southern delegates to end this thing by Super Tuesday.
By Gabriel Debenedetti
09/21/15, 05:06 PM EDT
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Hillary Clinton cant beat a Republican in Arkansas, but shes not there for a general-election battle.
The former first lady has returned to her onetime home state to court Democratic convention-goers, knowing every southern delegate could prove crucial to ending Bernie Sanders run.
This is about delegates, it isnt about electoral votes, said Skip Rutherford, a longtime Clinton friend and the dean of the Clinton School of Public Service at the University of Arkansas. There will be a completely different strategy when it comes to electoral votes.
If it gets that far. With her challenger gaining ground in both Iowa and New Hampshire, Clintons team knows she needs to mobilize her familys network of southern supporters and ensure the race for the partys nomination does not extend beyond March 1.
Part of this involves convincing Democrats in an increasing conservative part of the country to see her as the only viable option against a Republican. So shes contrasting herself and her positions not with Sanders but with the GOP contenders.
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www.politico.com/story/2015/09/hillary-clinton-southern-arkansas-sanders-213897#ixzz3mQDstRsN
Shes courting Southern delegates to end this thing by Super Tuesday.
By Gabriel Debenedetti
09/21/15, 05:06 PM EDT
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Hillary Clinton cant beat a Republican in Arkansas, but shes not there for a general-election battle.
The former first lady has returned to her onetime home state to court Democratic convention-goers, knowing every southern delegate could prove crucial to ending Bernie Sanders run.
This is about delegates, it isnt about electoral votes, said Skip Rutherford, a longtime Clinton friend and the dean of the Clinton School of Public Service at the University of Arkansas. There will be a completely different strategy when it comes to electoral votes.
If it gets that far. With her challenger gaining ground in both Iowa and New Hampshire, Clintons team knows she needs to mobilize her familys network of southern supporters and ensure the race for the partys nomination does not extend beyond March 1.
Part of this involves convincing Democrats in an increasing conservative part of the country to see her as the only viable option against a Republican. So shes contrasting herself and her positions not with Sanders but with the GOP contenders.
...
www.politico.com/story/2015/09/hillary-clinton-southern-arkansas-sanders-213897#ixzz3mQDstRsN
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Hillary Clinton taps Arkansas network in bid to finish Sanders (Original Post)
Catherina
Sep 2015
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Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)1. Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others
I'm not as bad as those people over there is such an inspirational and confidence inspiring message.
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)2. Uh oh...
If that's a strategy, it's bound to go nowhere.
People want answers and someone who they can believe in. Frankly, I can't see that coming from a delegate.
On edit: Can't these people understand what this election is about?
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)3. Of course they understand what this election is about...
It's about electing the first female President... as long as it's Hillary Clinton.
Response to Catherina (Original post)
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oasis
(49,408 posts)5. By March 1 it would be about time to get down to business.
Nothing wrong with that strategy.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)6. "courting southern delegates", eh?
Time to break out the ol' fake accent, I guess.
Renew Deal
(81,871 posts)7. If you consider super-delegates, this primary is all but over.
senz
(11,945 posts)8. She realized the object in her rearview mirror is closer than she thought
and gaining on her.
msongs
(67,441 posts)9. so bernie will not attempt to mobilize delegates and make him the viable option against repubs? nt
LuvLoogie
(7,028 posts)11. Nope. It's a revolution. Coalition building is for corporatists
and DLC, third way , blahlblahblah
And Hillary does this not to win the nomination, but to do something to undermine the genuine, the authentic Bernard Sanders.
olddots
(10,237 posts)10. attention Wal mart shoppers