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berni_mccoy

(23,018 posts)
Wed Jun 1, 2016, 09:28 AM Jun 2016

Politico: Hillary's Allies See The Light: Bernie's Positive Campaign Is What Is Needed.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/hillary-clinton-emails-223762

And Hillary can't do it because she's bogged down by her Private Server Scandal!

Super Delegates are starting to realize they need Bernie to beat Trump:

Close allies of Hillary Clinton are encouraging the Democratic front-runner to spend less time honing her attacks on Donald Trump — and more time focusing on a clear and positive message about her own campaign.
But the State Department inspector general’s report released last week has thrown an email-shaped road block into Clinton’s path as she attempts to whittle down her high negative ratings. And that has complicated the already difficult task of reshaping perceptions about a universally-known candidate.

“From her point of view, establishing positives is far more important to winning,” Mark Penn, Clinton’s former campaign manager who remains close to the family, said in a rare interview about the current campaign. "Why spend so much energy attacking Trump, what difference does it make, when he’s over 57 percent negative and she has a lot of leadership qualities that have gone unsung? It's like beating a dead horse.”


Hmmm, who has been running a campaign focused on issues with a positive message?!? OH RIGHT! BERNIE!

But wait, there's more:

But whatever the cause of her high unfavorables, Penn said, the category of voters who dislike both Clinton and Trump is simply “too big. The real key to her election now is less about thumping Trump and more raising her positive leadership and vision.”
It's a point many Democrats have begun to make as Clinton spends more time on the trail attacking Trump, even amid hand-wringing about Clinton’s slow response to his attacks. While it's necessary to go after her rival, said another 2008 campaign veteran, Geoff Garin, now a pollster for Priorities USA, "there would be a real benefit in building her positive case.”


Sorry to break it to you Penn and Garin, she has no positive case and won't because of this scandal. There is only one candidate with HIGH FAVORABLES who has an issues focused, positive campaign, and that is BERNIE SANDERS!

It's time for Hillary to step aside and for the party to GET IN LINE TO SUPPORT BERNIE!
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Politico: Hillary's Allies See The Light: Bernie's Positive Campaign Is What Is Needed. (Original Post) berni_mccoy Jun 2016 OP
LOL n/t Lucinda Jun 2016 #1
june 16th can't get here soon enough beachbum bob Jun 2016 #2
What's been positive about his month long string of whining and threatening of lawsuits? CrowCityDem Jun 2016 #3
After June 7th nobody going to pay attention to Bernie but to call him a sore loser. upaloopa Jun 2016 #4
Calling people losers is what Trump does. Bluenorthwest Jun 2016 #5
Some Hill fans are not unlike Trump fans... berni_mccoy Jun 2016 #7
Sanders positive? What a fuckin' joke. All whine, disaster, blame, accusation and criticism seabeyond Jun 2016 #6
Positive campaign LoverOfLiberty Jun 2016 #8
There is that aspect of negative for sure. Another is, his whole campaign is about seabeyond Jun 2016 #9
 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
5. Calling people losers is what Trump does.
Wed Jun 1, 2016, 09:58 AM
Jun 2016

I guess not just Trump, but he is the purveyor of that style in this cycle. Not something I'd personally wish to echo. But that's just me.

 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
6. Sanders positive? What a fuckin' joke. All whine, disaster, blame, accusation and criticism
Wed Jun 1, 2016, 10:16 AM
Jun 2016

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Sanders positive campaign? Have we ever heard ONE positive thing from the man? Ever?

LoverOfLiberty

(1,438 posts)
8. Positive campaign
Wed Jun 1, 2016, 10:56 AM
Jun 2016

Sanders?

Its like you want us to pretend we haven't been paying attention these last couple of months.

The Sanders campaign went negative in March and it keeps getting nastier and nastier.

 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
9. There is that aspect of negative for sure. Another is, his whole campaign is about
Wed Jun 1, 2016, 11:04 AM
Jun 2016

how horrible life is and everyone is bad but a few of his privileged... The very foundation of his campaign is negative. Without the Clinton bashing.

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