Ahead of Party Meeting, Hillary Clinton Sends Memos to Democrats Detailing Her Strengths (HRC GROUP)

[DeepModem Mom]

On the eve of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s speech at the Democratic National Committee summer meeting on Friday, her campaign released four memos from the first voting states that detail the deep networks she has built in each one.

The four “state of the race” memos are a jumble of numbers and factoids from Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada.

They outline the contours of months of organizational effort, a campaign foundation that is stronger than the one she built in 2008. But the memos, coming amid the looming possibility of a campaign by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., are more than a reminder to any anxious Democrats about the depth of her operation: They are also a blinking warning sign to Mr. Biden’s supporters.

For instance, the Iowa memo says that the campaign has been “engaging volunteers early” and “is now able to grow and do outreach to an increasing number of Iowans every day.” Citing a “volunteer leadership model from previous campaigns,” the team “continues to empower volunteers that were identified early on in the campaign. They are now phonebank and canvass captains or engagement directors who are reaching out to new members of the community and will be critical to building the structure needed to win the caucus.”...

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/08/27/in-implicit-warning-to-joe-biden-hillary-clinton-sends-memos-to-democrats-detailing-her-strengths/ via New York Times

[still_one]

1. "the memos are a jumble of numbers and factoids" , An interesting way to phrase it. Apart from the

memo characterization, the author, Maggie Haberman, who recently left Politico for the NY Times, and before that worked for New York city's top tabloids, the New York Post and Daily News, I have never seen put Hillary into a positive light.

In this article, her inference is that these memos are simply vehicles to sooth her campaigns anxiety about Joe Biden, so I am not surprised that this is coming from Ms. Haberman.

In fact, now a days, anything that comes from the NY Times I hold suspect, without other verification. NY Times went on a hiring spree earlier this year, and obtained a lot of reporters from politico, which is also not always the most unbiased reporting outlet.

[riversedge]

2. I thought the article was a bit snippy toward

Hillary even before I read your comments.

Thanks for the post--that said. Hillary needed to make a case for her nomination today --she did well.

[still_one]

3. I like the way you put it, "snippy". There are a few reporters on the NY Times that seem to go out

of their way, even when the story is positive, to add a jab or two, in my observation

[riversedge]

5. It is those uncalled for jabs that are so trying to me. Just write the

fracking story for pete's sake. I do not even have to look for those jabs or snippy lines anymore. They just hit me in the face as I read!

[Cha]

4. Good on our Hillary, DMM.. she does have some strengths!

[still_one]

6. She has a lot of strengths