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Hillary Clinton is winning with a hyper-local strategy| Hillary Clinton Group
Michigan should have been fertile territory for Bernie Sanders’s populist and protectionist message, but he’s expected to lose the Democratic primary there today by double digits.
What happened?
Hillary Clinton made the race in Michigan all about the lead in Flint’s water, her opposition to the state’s controversial emergency manager law and her opponent’s vote against a bailout for the auto industry.
The crisis in Flint had been going on for some time before the former Secretary of State sent emissaries to visit, secured the endorsement of the city’s mayor and then insisted on having a debate in the city, 70 miles northwest of Detroit.
It is part of a pattern for Clinton. She’s approached every primary more like it was a Senate race than a presidential election by identifying a local issue that would play to her advantage and then championing it........
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- Sanders, though he was mayor of Burlington, Vt., in the 1980s, does not engage on local policy to anywhere near the degree that Clinton does. He’s calling for a national political revolution, not incremental public policy changes. The senator also has a tiny press staff compared to the Clinton juggernaut, which teems with regional press staffers who have the bandwidth to focus on placing local stories.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2016/03/08/daily-202-hillary-clinton-is-winning-with-a-hyper-local-strategy/56de2040981b92a22d7612d7/
What happened?
Hillary Clinton made the race in Michigan all about the lead in Flint’s water, her opposition to the state’s controversial emergency manager law and her opponent’s vote against a bailout for the auto industry.
The crisis in Flint had been going on for some time before the former Secretary of State sent emissaries to visit, secured the endorsement of the city’s mayor and then insisted on having a debate in the city, 70 miles northwest of Detroit.
It is part of a pattern for Clinton. She’s approached every primary more like it was a Senate race than a presidential election by identifying a local issue that would play to her advantage and then championing it........
.............
- Sanders, though he was mayor of Burlington, Vt., in the 1980s, does not engage on local policy to anywhere near the degree that Clinton does. He’s calling for a national political revolution, not incremental public policy changes. The senator also has a tiny press staff compared to the Clinton juggernaut, which teems with regional press staffers who have the bandwidth to focus on placing local stories.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2016/03/08/daily-202-hillary-clinton-is-winning-with-a-hyper-local-strategy/56de2040981b92a22d7612d7/
"Her surprise attack scored points with Michigan voters, and reverberated online, as this word cloud of all Sanders mentions online illustrates:"
That column provides one state issue after another that she has learned, and for which she identifies solutions. Our first woman president is going to be exceptional.
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I like that pic.. thank you, Rose!
Yes, she is.. so exciting! 
Here's my state mentioned...
Just yesterday, the Clinton campaign sent a press release to journalists in Hawaii “regarding her support for the Native Hawaiian community.”
“I support the Native Hawaiian community's ongoing work toward self-determination and nationhood, and their recent adoption of a constitution,” Clinton said in a statement about an issue that is not on the radar of anyone in D.C. but certainly matters to some who will show up at the state’s caucuses on March 26. “I commend President Obama's leadership in working with Native Hawaiians on the opportunity to establish a government-to-government relationship with the United States
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“I support the Native Hawaiian community's ongoing work toward self-determination and nationhood, and their recent adoption of a constitution,” Clinton said in a statement about an issue that is not on the radar of anyone in D.C. but certainly matters to some who will show up at the state’s caucuses on March 26. “I commend President Obama's leadership in working with Native Hawaiians on the opportunity to establish a government-to-government relationship with the United States
about for months, except to bash HRC. Finally the email and Bengahzi "scandals" have been shown to be just exactly what they are, made up scandals to smear HRC. So now the press has to start writing the truth.
