Hillary Clinton Returns to the Campaign Trail, Vowing New Approach

[TomCADem]

Source: NY Times

GREENSBORO, N.C. — A rested Hillary Clinton returned to the campaign trail here on Thursday after three days of recovering at home from pneumonia, and vowed a different approach on the final stretch of the campaign, one more focused on her own positive vision for the country, rather than eviscerating her rival.

“I want to close my campaign focused on opportunities for kids and fairness for families,” Mrs. Clinton said after her first rally of her renewed campaign. “I want to give Americans something to vote for, not just against.”

The shift in tone felt striking after Mrs. Clinton had spent months tearing town her Republican opponent, Donald J. Trump.

But with less than eight weeks until Election Day and tightening polls showing a majority of voters dislike and distrust her, aides said it was imperative that Mrs. Clinton deliver a more uplifting message.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/16/us/politics/hillary-clinton-campaign.html?_r=0

[vadermike]

1. is it

too little too late.. i dont know.. we still have the debates.. she has to somehow thread e needle showing positive message and kick hi ass at the same time in the debates... with our worthless media.. i dont know.. i am afraid ...but hope for the best!

[ffr]

3. ???

Can you be any more downbeat?

[Matthew28]

11. there's a rea double standard in the media. Hillary has to to thread the needle.

[Democat]

14. You're surrounded

Hit the alert button and run for safety.

[Chakab]

18. Are we supposed to be upbeat given state of the Presidential and Congressional campaigns

the party has run in this cycle?

Even if she wins, they're likely to hold the Senate.

[ffr]

23. Were you resigned to that way of thinking last week?

...when she was on track to take both houses and the election? Democrats can win this thing and take a supermajority. That should always be the mindset and the goal.

[Chakab]

25. About the down ticket races? Yes, I was. The polls have gotten progressively worse for the Senate

since the convention.

I never said anything about both Houses. If you've actually been paying attention, you'd know that the Democrats were poised to take back the Senate for most of the year.

How is the party supposed to take a supermajority when it keeps running terrible candidates and the POTUS nominee refuses truthfully link the Republican party as a whole to the rise of Trump or to produce any sort of general unifying theme for the party's nominees to run on nation wide.

[ffr]

26. Ech!

You might want to sell delete that last post before it gets reported.

First, the polls for senate have been getting better since the Dem convention, only recently have come down a tad.
Second, you did use the word 'congress' (implying senate and house) in your title previously
Thirdly, that whole last paragraph is just atrocious. Hillary is a good person and overly qualified to be president. How can you lump her in as a terrible candidate?
Fourthly, she has addressed a unifying theme, it's all there for you to read in case you missed her repeatedly saying it. It's spelled out clearly in the linked PDF. Take a look.

https://www.demconvention.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Democratic-Party-Platform-7.21.16-no-lines.pdf

[TomCADem]

4. President Trump will have a serious vendetta to carry out.

Think about Philippines and Duarte. Well, at least Putin will be happy.

[Loki Liesmith]

8. given that we are still just ahead, or at worst, even

after the worst that they can throw against us...

I am less concerned about the outcome today than I was yesterday.

[ffr]

2. Her rival can pack up his shit about now. Game over!

Push to the finish on a positive note, highlighting her accomplishments and direction.



Hey 18 - 34 year old LVs. Are you going to help move our country forward with HRC and Bernie Sanders leading a supermajority or are you going to hamstring the rest of us because you're going to protest vote for Stein? You'll get more by voting for HRC than you will from taking up a spot in the voting booth. We need you to unite!

[TomCADem]

5. But Maybe American Voters Want Ethnic Cleansing. Look at Europe.

He will be our very own Slobodan Miloševi.

[Farmgirl1961]

6. I think it's great that Hillary has a game plan

But I'm sure the media will find some way to keep ripping her to shreds.

What do you suppose Hillary needs to do or say to lesson this apparent mistrust and downright hatred? Be more transparent? Show some of her self-effacing humor? Tell stories? Have others talk about her in a warm and glowing way?

She can talk all she wants about Teflon Don, but people still seem to have misgivings.

[DarthDem]

12. Your Concern Is Noted!

15 more posts from you since I last saw you, all focused on concern, concern, concern! Gosh! You must be positively exhausted!

[Democat]

15. The term "teflon" when refering to Trump is a right wing meme on DU

DU is full of posters with 100 posts repeating the same thing, Trump is teflon and he's going to win.

They must be writing from a teleprompter.

[tinrobot]

7. Wonderful! Going positive will seal the deal.

She's already convinced people why they shouldn't vote for the double talking scam artist.

Now we get the other part of the equation - why people should vote for her. Once she talks about helping regular people with strong progressive policies, he will have no response.

[asiliveandbreathe]

9. This downbeat sure doesn't sound like one of our DU members..

Don't understand it -

read DailyKos for an upbeat and great readout of election 2016 - right now - 72% Hillary win election -



http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/9/15/1570341/-Daily-Kos-Elections-2016-forecast-Polling-day-from-hell-has-little-effect-on-the-bottom-line

[asiliveandbreathe]

10. sorry - reply was for vadermike..oops..

my bad....

[Granny M]

19. Just read it.

It's very good.

[CanadaexPat]

13. I wish aides would shut up

They're rolling out a perfectly reasonable next phase of campaigning - there are always shifts in emphasis through a long canpaign, to cover a number of different strategies. But the background stuff makes it sound like it's panic or concern. Let the candidate do the talking and leave the inside baseball to after the campaign is over.

[PSPS]

16. Again, with this "a majority of voters dislike and distrust her"

It's funny how everyone I know, both democrat and republican, have no such opinion, but the media repeats this canard in almost every piece they write.

[thesquanderer]

22. because "everyone you know" is anecdotal, while the media is reporting scientific polls.

No one I know (including Republicans) will vote for Trump. So my own experience tells me that Trump will get 0% in November. But the polls tell me he will get 40-something percent. I assume the polls are more accurate than "everyone I know."

[Beartracks]

17. I still don't get the "distrust" thing...

Did she vote for the Iraq War Resolution? Yes, although that's different than "voting to attack."
Is she comfortable with Wall Street? Sure, that argument could be made.
Do you trust her 100% to always take the most progressive path? Well, maybe not 100%...

But.... you know who CAN trust?

Donald J. Trump -- you can trust him 100% to do make the world less safe, to empower bigots and inspire hatred, to establish a regulatory-free environment for corporations to thrive, and to make the voters poorer, sicker, and shut out of the political process.

Even if I felt a lot of distrust for Hillary, I'd much rather risk, say, an 80% chance she'll pursue goals and policies I agree with rather than Trump's 100% guarantee that he won't.

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[harun]

27. At the end of the day I think that is where she wins

The geriatric voters, VOTE and they don't like surprises. Trump hasn't outlined a single policy. He just complains about Obama and Hillary. When they get to the voting booth they are not going to feel safe with Trump.

We all know what Hillary is going to do, even though Progressives (like me) don't like it.

[TipTok]

28. Ugh....

This post is the whole election up to this point made micro...

[Lunabell]

20. This is all well and good

but she still needs to kick trump's big orange ass and call him out for his bigotry and hate. I liked, no loved, her basket of deplorables line!!!!!!!!!

[geek tragedy]

24. have you decided on a candidate for November yet? nt