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In reply to the discussion: Keith Ellison: [View all]BainsBane
(53,034 posts)There is actual data from the election that you have avoided like the plague because it doesn't suit your agenda.
Trump voters had a variety of views on trade, on healthcare, on every issue EXCEPT RACE. Surveys of Trump voters demonstrate that the one thing they agree with is that white people have it rough in America and people of color have too many advantages. That you imagine TV ads would change that is ridiculous. I seriously doubt most Americans even know what TPP is. Why do you suppose Trump always talked about NAFTA rather than TPP?
Those third party fascists hate Hillary and the Democrats with a passion. They continue to defend Trump. They celebrate the destruction of they country. They cheer the immigration raids and Muslim ban. You can read their ramblings anytime at raftucker/Putin troll underground (JPR). That you think those assholes would have suddenly decided that policy mattered more than their hatred for Clinton if only they'd seen an ad on Standing Rock is stunningly disconnected from reality.
TV ads aren't a campaign, yet you think that is all that matters. People don't even watch TV ads anymore. Candidates who focus overwhelmingly on TV don't win. You know who NEVER runs ads? Keith Ellison, and he says it's because they are worthless. Instead, he focuses on voter turnout. Turnout is the one thing you could actually help with, except for some reason you prefer to pretend you're some media consultant, when you clearly haven't got the skill.
Quit using the word "we." You didn't run a campaign. You are not the Clinton campaign. I don't know that you even volunteered. You don't seem to have ever spoken to actual voters. If you want to look at what can be done better, start with yourself. What can YOU do to turn out voters? But you won't do that becuase you rather sit from the sidelines and make absurd claims about what would win, when you have no fucking clue, as your track record demonstrates clearly. Your advice on what constitutes a winning campaign sucks. The results speak for themselves. Your candidates ALL lose, and then you blame the ones who win for not acting like the losers.