2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forum"We have three major voter supression operations underway"
Says a senior official from the Trump campaign.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-27/inside-the-trump-bunker-with-12-days-to-go
"Instead of expanding the electorate, Bannon and his team are trying to shrink it. We have three major voter suppression operations under way, says a senior official. Theyre aimed at three groups Clinton needs to win overwhelmingly: idealistic white liberals, young women, and African Americans."
On Oct. 24, Trumps team began placing spots on select African American radio stations. In San Antonio, a young staffer showed off a South Park-style animation hed created of Clinton delivering the super predator line (using audio from her original 1996 sound bite), as cartoon text popped up around her: Hillary Thinks African Americans are Super Predators. The animation will be delivered to certain African American voters through Facebook dark postsnonpublic posts whose viewership the campaign controls so that, as Parscale puts it, only the people we want to see it, see it. The aim is to depress Clintons vote total. We know because weve modeled this, says the official. It will dramatically affect her ability to turn these people out.
The Trump teams effort to discourage young women by rolling out Clinton accusers and drive down black turnout in Miamis Little Haiti neighborhood with targeted messages about the Clinton Foundations controversial operations in Haiti is an odd gambit. Campaigns spend millions on data science to understand their own potential supportersto whom theyre likely already credible messengersbut here Trump is speaking to his opponents. Furthermore, theres no scientific basis for thinking this ploy will convince these voters to stay home. It could just as easily end up motivating them.
catbyte
(34,367 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)wishstar
(5,268 posts)Repubs are definitely aiming for younger women voters in N.C. at least, where most ads feature several women making strong accusations against Dems.
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)Can't imagine any sane woman being attracted to their BS
Panich52
(5,829 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Of course, that can backfire!
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surrealAmerican
(11,360 posts)I'm more concerned about actual voter suppression - intimidation at polling places, voter ID requirements, purged registrations, fewer polling places in Democratic areas, etc.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)tclambert
(11,085 posts)kwassa
(23,340 posts)I highly recommend this article.
They are quite aware they are going to lose the election; this is the plan for the future after the election.