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In reply to the discussion: Keith Ellison: [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)He refused to take up Stein's offer to let him stand on the Green ballot line. He endorsed Hillary and campaigned for her. He's not responsible for everything anyone who purported to be one of his supporters did.
And as to the convention...even with the protests(I disapprove of the booing of John Lewis and of the way they treated your daughter-neither thing should have happened), we left Philly with a huge lead in the polls. We were strengthened by the week and by the addition of Sanders proposals to the platform.
If the fall campaign had FOCUSED on the platform, rather than wasting hours of hours of ad time on the useless strategy of calling Trump a scumbag(yes, he WAS a scumbag, but the voters didn't CARE...even the moderate Republican housewives from the 'burbs that the emphasis on calling out Drumpf were supposed to attract) the Comey intervention would not have mattered. High turnout would have assured us of victory.
She talked about the platform in the speeches, but the speeches didn't matter because they usually didn't get covered. The ads mattered.
If our ads had focused solely on the platform, we'd have won.
If they'd done that AND the ads had also said "no TPP" and "we stand with Standing Rock", we'd have won in a landslide.
I say this as someone who wanted the Clinton-Kaine ticket to win as much as you did. I say this as someone who thinks the nonvoters should have voted anyway. And I say it as someone who realizes that the only way to turn nonvoters INTO voters is to campaign FOR, rather than just AGAINST.
Now, we have to make some changes if we are to win, if we are to defend the people the Clinton campaign claimed it was focused on defending(and which both campaigns actually cared about defending with equal passion).
None of those changes would harm any Democratic voting bloc.