2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumSanders Campaign Distances Itself From Its Own Campaign Ads
Bernie Sanderss pledge not to run a negative campaign is running into the reality of his digital campaign, which produces ads with sharp contrasts between Sanders and Hillary Clinton.
In targeted digital ads, the Sanders campaign has regularly attacked Clinton for her Wall Street ties, claiming that Clinton is (in the case of one digital ad) Bank Funded and in another, asserting that Clinton May Have Wall Street, But Bernie Sanders Has You.
Both digital spots include lists of Clintons top financial-sector donors.
On Saturday, campaign spokesman Michael Briggs told the Washington Post that the Bank Funded spot which was spotted by several regular readers of Politico and shared widely with reporters was a mistake and that the ad had been taken down. Briggs said the ad ran because of a miscommunication in our communications shop.
We havent been doing ads that mention Hillary Clinton, Briggs told the paper.
But over the past few weeks, the Sanders campaign has run ads or ad-like posts with Clintons name with a similar message to the Politico ad.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/evanmcsan/sanders-campaign-distances-itself-from-its-own-campaign-ads#.hbK7vP0AB
NanceGreggs
(27,818 posts)That's always a good sign. It just screams "well-run campaign", doesn't it?
riversedge
(70,299 posts)NanceGreggs
(27,818 posts)... for some inexplicable reason, the man's own words are not popular around these parts.
Go figure!
Kentonio
(4,377 posts)bowens43
(16,064 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Pulling back an ad they already ran. What's the point? Campaigning against the media and themselves. Pretty rough last week for them.
Kentonio
(4,377 posts)9 points in Iowa. The month month is going to be fun.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)I can't believe Clinton is ahead by 9 in Iowa. Amazing how many states she has such a solid lead in. How many states is she up by double digits where Sanders hasn't shown movement in almost two months? And now he is campaigning against the media and himself. lol.